09.16.05
60 Years Later
(Note: Originally written 29, 2005, with some editorial changes to make it more suitable for an history blog)
Unbelievable stories like this keep happening.
[Siegfried Kampl of Austria] had said he would relinquish his seat amid pressure from all sides after he deplored the “brutal persecution” of Austrian Nazis after World War II.
Last month, he said his father was a member of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party like “more than 99%” of Austrians.
He also referred to Austrian deserters of Nazi Germany’s armed forces as “assassins of battle comrades”.
And there’s more:
Days after the Kampl controversy broke on 19 April, another right-wing member of the Bundesrat, John Gudenus, contended that the existence of Nazi gas chambers “remains to be proven”.
As an historian in training, I am supposed to try to be objective and dispassionate but honestly, What is WRONG with people?