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I consider this as a very good contribution to the history of Austria and Vienna, as it concentrates very much on the city. I am very sad, that the cruel events have poisoned the relation between jewish and non jewish people up to this day. Naturally i can understand the resentiments by jewish people. On the other hand i have the feeling, that the jewish community is not interested in a better relation and understanding at all. I was born in Vienna in 1964 and never had any contact with someone of that confession until i was 23... I never wanted to bother those people with the subject of anti semitism i simply treated them as normal as anybody else. No special treatment and most important no discrimination at all. But the jewish people i know distanced themselfes, which i cannot comprehend. In the 1980s we had a series on TV called "Österreich II", made by Hugo Portisch and Sepp Riff, that explained how the so called 2nd Republic of Austria came into existance, which included how the first republic ceased to exist and how the polititions and the people of Austria managed to reach freedom, which for a large portion meant how to get rid of the Sowjets and not get divided like Germany...! This might explain the strategy of declare Austria as the first victim of nazi germany in general. The tendency to form a union with Germany was strongly triggered in 1918/19 by the fact that no one believed this once huge, now tiny Austria could survive on it's own. This was partly due to the fact, nobody showed interest in what's going on inside Austria, because of the tentions going on with the countries belonging to Austria. For instance no one was aware that 3 out of 4 locomotive factories of Austria - Hungaria were actually located inside nowadays Austria... And as food production was mainly located outside Austria, it had to import food and reorganise the agriculture. The exorbitant voting numbers for the Anschluss, held in April 1939 were manipulated and came through immense pressure by the nazis, one has to remember. - But no excuses, the voting would have gone pro Anschluss anyway, bust with a majority... I feel ashamed to that! On the other hand, one must consider the economic situation of Austria whic was desperate, at best. The sequence shown from Heldenplatz do not show the whole truth! In the "Österreich II" series (and books) they showed more of this reel. There one could see, that not the whole square was packed with spectators. In fact the nazis pushed the people together, so that the camera suggested a completely filled square! It is said, Hitler wasn't amused by the fact... So it is inaccurate to say, there were 100.000 people on Heldenplatz! True is many 10.000 people. For more, the square is simply too small. True is, there were more than 100.000 on the street that day! In fact the brother of my stepfather was one of them! He had been anti nazi and anti Hitler to this day, but said he will watch and see what Hitler ad to say. My stepfather told, his brother Karli came back with a shine in his eyes and murmuring "this man is a genius" - to go the oncomming days, volontearing for the Wehrmacht, to tragically perish at Stalingrad... My stepfather's parents had operated the canteen at the "Floridsdorfer Lokomotivfabrik" in the 21st district and most workers sypathised with communist ideas. Which my stepfather was then, a communist. This was why he was se te ced to concentration camp in 1943. He went to Mauthausen and later Dachau. He survived the ordeal... He turned away from communism after the "Prague spring" , or its suppression in the late 1960s. So this contribution it draws a picture of a 100% Nazi population which isn't true at all! It was just too few and the few were too scared and too much under pressure. As a twist of fate, the owadays head of the Mauthausen documetation center, Mrs. Mag. Barbara Glück, used to live in our house and i have loose contact... One topic which i think is controversial is the one about Kurt Waldheim! This theme was terribly exaggerrated by foreign european countries like Belgium (who used this with hunt to turn away attention from their own collaboration and neo nazism and the JWC - if Waldheim really had any major role in the holocaust, he never, never ever had become general secretary od the UN!!! Never ever! It was a revenge because he let Yassir Arafat speak in front of the UN comitee... True is he "forgot" about his activities before and during the war. But if Austria had been so important to the western allies and later the NATO, there wouldn't have been any misstones at all. In the Western German Army, Luftwaffe and Navy were much higher ranking officers and much decorated war heroes, who knew better wat was going on with the nazis and holocaust and not one voice has ever been risen about them! (Otto Kretschmer - U-Boat ace, Bubi Harmann, Gerd Barkhorn, Günter Rall [the 3 highest ranking fighter aces of all time], Johannes Steinhoff fighter ace and Nato general, etc, etc, etc). What about japanese real war criminals? Most of them never faced a word of anger after the war, nor trial - because the need of Japan in the cold war. This doesn't excuse the men and women of the war generation of waging war, but the relations have to stay right. The relation which is not put in right with all the property taken away. Not restituted due lack of survivors or due to resisting people, authorities, or state!!! This has to be put right! In my opinion the access of the french, who exclude religion from schools and state, keeping religion a private subject seems a good solution to put aside troubles because of confession. When studying history i see that nothing killed more people than war over religion religion and related causes. So why not make it a private side thing? Another thing on Waldheim, war crimes, victors's justice: 1.) The truth and honesty are always the first victims of a conflict 2.) The same rules should apply for everyone 3.) Who is innocent, may throw the first stone 4.) Who is sitting in a glass house shouldn't throw stones So there is a lot to be worked up: Allied war crimes, swiss banks and the accounts with no notice since the holocaust, the massacre of My Lai and the justice afterwards, russian Wagner soldiers in foreign states etc, etc, etc
Thank you for uploading this! My great grandma Inge was a kindertransport child with her sister from Austria but sadly had a very bad experience when she came to England I don't know the details but they were very unlucky. They never saw their parents again and never talked about it so a lot of generational trauma has been passed down my family
Very interesting… and heartbreaking… It amazes me how fortunate we are to live in a world without “”war”” or maybe a “Great War” and why it’s so important to find a peaceful ending to Ukraine/Russia. War is a terrible thing - the one the National Socialists waged against the Jews was unprecedented and evil to unimaginable levels… what humanity lost in the Holocaust was not just it’s Jews… we lost so more… we lost great works of literature never to be written, works of art never to be drawn… we lost possible remedies and medicine for catastrophic plagues viruses and diseases…. But most of all … humanity lost its moral compass. The Holocaust must continue to be taught - because the plague of blind hatred is so easily ignored until it’s too late.
Another holocaust is going on in Gaza right now. The Zionist are doing it again. Real Jews must separate from Zionists. Haavara agreement was the reason Hitler got the big loans from Wall Street. WW2 was a set up. So was WW1.. Once you realize who pulls the strings, you understand why war is still the most profitably investment you can make. It´s sickening. And I agree - very heartbreaking..
The Jewish contribution was immense. Intellectual, cultural, music & philosophical & literature + science & of course psychology with the legendary Sigmund Freud! So much destruction- for what?
I am so happy to have come across this page. I’ve watched half of the holocaust survivor feature films and there’s never a dry eye.. so eloquently put together..I’m halfway thru all of them and should be done watching all in 3 days.. thank you for documenting these special people and their stories. Much love from Ontario, Canada. 🙏 ❤
Моя прабабушка ховала у нас Евреїв,її подали на чорний список щоб їх убити але вона вижила і зберегла Евреїв😢нічого видно і ми зараз сховали Евреїв але вони незнають про нашу прабабушку😢😢😢
Some of them adjusted rather quickly and it's a shame that some of the children struggle with adjusting to being an England . I'm glad some of them were reunited with parents or relatives after the war .
I wonder if the kindertransport also included the children Sir Winton helped get out of Czechoslovakia . He saved 669 Jewish children and many decades later was knighted for it .
Евреи очень умная нация. Я училась с евреями и всегда восхищалась как они легко учились, но началось гонение евреев(1971 -- 1977)гг распределение им давали в самые плохие места, отработав, они все перебрались в Штаты, где достойно работали и, думаю, принесли большую пользу стране, но только не нашей. Это ведь был физтех и учились они там отлично.
Как то рассказала мне одна очень старая еврейка историю : во время "дела врачей" она училась в мед институте и появилась у нее новая подружка .Через некоторое время эта подружка призналась еврейке что послали ее стучать и ничего плохого , никакой кромолы подружка не заметила , за что ее сильно ругали кураторы и она не знает что делать...😊
Not in Soviet Poland of the Stalinist period (1944-53). They made up 40-50 % of the upper staff of the security apparatus (official data). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VA50ZecT_QI.html Period of 1939-41 on the Soviet occupied Polish territories is also interesting when it comes to this matter.
Good ! That's what wars about. But , what happened to him later , because quite a few Jews , who fought with the Soviets , were sent to gulags as being subversive threats to Bolshevism under Stalin regime , and Brezhnev too !
Прекрасный фильм! Спасибо от минчанки. Я белоруска, в нашей школе было много учителей -евреев. Буду помнить их до сиерти. Огромная благодарность им за всё!
Do you have any idea how powerful Israel is? Think about UFOS for 1 second. Think about plagues and cancers for 1 second. Imagine needing cold water to cool a burn.......and the world is filled with nothing but radioactive hot water.... And every time you try to cool your yissues... you are burnt more and more by scalding hot water....because there is no cold clean water left.... Would it be torturous to the body to drown in hot radioactive water generated by over zealous politicians crying over money and bills?
If you presidential elect threaten the jews....[earth polarities], you could end up in a snipers shit storm.....and millions of black craft. Make a hole. Blow a hole. Bore a hole. What gets bigger as you take more a way? When you threaten poland.....you threaten ruling casts and Earth's stability. Be aware......if you threaten Poland you are threatening every race and every class....and the rule of rain God's and their chosen cups and trees.
I tried to correct a grammatical error in here from the autocorrect and it won't let me correct it . What I said towards the end was that I don't for call Sir Winton's first name .
And , against Communism who persecuted the Jews just as much as the Nazis .. Typical totalitarian character I trying to pull the wool over the eyes of naive' people's . After Nazi- Germany was defeated , USAs General George S Patton predicted that the USSR would be trouble . Well. the formal USSR , currently Russia again , is trouble in this world again . This time Russia will have to be cautious , along with Communist Red China !
As a descendant of Sephardic Jews, who fled the Spanish Inquisition, to what is now the American Southwest. This video makes me even more proud to be a Jewish American. My family was part of the 550,000 American Jews, who served in the US Military, during WWII. We still speak some Ladino in our house. 🪬✡️🦅🇺🇸
A few months after Germany's annexation of Austria of March 12th, 1938 all Austrian Jews were robbed of their property they owned in Austria and in some cases also in Germany. After German Reunification in 1990, the Ministries of Finance and Justice again for a 3rd time legally stole 9 Berlin apartment buildings from 6 Austrian Jewish Nazi victims legally. Now the descendants in an effort to seek Justice have filed a lawsuit in the USA against Germany for Thefticide and Unjust enrichment. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lFkI-u5iSHM.html
