Andreas Nowak’s award-winning documentary A Perfectly Normal Doctor (2000) exposes the systematic practice of euthanasia – so-called “assisted death” – of disabled babies and children that took place during the Nazi period. While there were undoubtedly many physicians and nurses involved in such crimes throughout the Third Reich, this film focuses on Austrian Nazi doctor and later forensic psychiatrist Heinrich Gross who was in charge of a the children’s ward at the Viennese mental institution where 800 children were killed.
Archive for National Socialism
Incisive Anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, cultural memory, Germany, Hitler, memory politics, National Socialism on 13 March 2013 by delclem
Austria commemorates again its – less forced than desired – “Anschluss” to Nazi Germany. Continue reading
Austrian Anschluss, 1938 – 2013
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1938, Anschluss, Austria, Germany, history, National Socialism on 11 March 2013 by delclem
“Germany’s Annexation Of Austria 75 Years Ago Remembered As ‘Darkest Time’.” >full text (c) HUFFINGTON POST, 2013
“Taoiseach, Nazi, soldier, spy”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, Ireland, Literature, National Socialism, Otto Skorzeny, Second World War, SS, Stuart Neville on 12 January 2013 by delclem
Ratlines, the latest novel by North Irish author Stuart Neville, is not only about the former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Charles J Haughey, but also on the prominent Austrian SS-veteran Otto Skorzeny who lived in Ireland from the late 1950s (and was buried at the Döbling cemetery in Vienna after his death in 1975) > text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Youth against Nazism
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, National Socialism, Schlurfs, subculture, youth on 26 August 2012 by delclem
“A short account of the Schlurfs, working
class Austrian youth who rejected the
values of Nazism” (c) libcom.org 2012
“The Holocaust Is German Family History”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags family history, family memory, Germany, Holocaust, Moritz Pfeiffer, National Socialism, Second World War on 12 April 2012 by delclem
“German historian Moritz Pfeiffer asked his granddad what he did in World War II, and then fact-checked the testimony. His findings in a new book shed light on a dying generation that remains outwardly unrepentant, but is increasingly willing to break decades of silence on how, and why, it followed Hitler.”
> Article & photo abum (c) DER SPIEGEL, 2012
> The notion of cultural memory (c) Goethe Institut
PS. On the problematic function of family memroy, also see
> Harald Welzer, Grandpa wasn’t a Nazi (c) AJC
The Waffen-SS as “European Freedom Fighters” – excuse me?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Estonia, Germany, National Socialism, Waffen-SS, World War Two on 26 January 2012 by delclem
“Despised & ostracized, the Swedish community of Waffen-SS volunteers long gathered in secret on April 14 (…) for obscure ritualistic annual gatherings at a cemetery in a Stockholm suburb.
Since the 1990s, the rituals have not needed to be clandestine: the few, now very elderly survivors now head to Sinimäe, Estonia, where they feel they are now getting the honor to which they are entitled. Here, Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, German and other Waffen-SS veterans from Western Europe meet up with their Estonian comrades and neo-Nazi followers. (…)
According to the Tageszeitung, this March the Estonian parliament will now consider a law, which would formally designate the Estonian Waffen-SS veterans as “Freedom Fighters.” Article by Per A. Rudling (c) Defending History.com, 2012
Interview with Dr. Rudling (c) hitlersforeignexecutioners.com, 2012
Another unpunished massacre
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Ardeatine Caves, criminal justice, Germany, Italy, National Socialism, Rome, war crimes, World War Two on 19 January 2012 by delclem
“In the spring of 1944, Nazi troops massacred hundreds of Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome. After World War II came to an end, however, the German government did little to track down the perpetrators. At the time, both Rome and Bonn were more interested in politics than justice.” Article by Klaus Wiegrefe
(c) DER SPIEGEL, 2012; photo (c) Koch/Bundesarchiv
delirium clemens 