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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Mar 17, 2018, 12:30 PM Mar 2018

104-year-old Holocaust survivor recalls the Anschluss

"Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust.


Almost 105 years old, he shared with AFP his sometimes startling memories of Hitler's takeover of Austria in March 1938 and how anti-Semitism lingered on well after the war.

"Anti-Semitism was already very much in evidence in the 1920s," he says.

"But [Austro-fascist chancellors of the 1930s] Dollfuss and Schuschnigg created such poverty that 80 percent of Austrians welcomed the Anschluss", the centenarian Jewish community leader in the city of Salzburg recalls.

Feingold had moved to Italy in the 1930s to escape that poverty. But he happened to find himself back in Vienna when, on March 13 1938, German troops made their triumphant entry into the Austrian capital.

He was 24 years old and admits to having "no idea" of the true nature of what was afoot, as Vienna celebrated the Nazis' arrival in a carnival atmosphere.


Read more: https://nation.com.pk/17-Mar-2018/104-year-old-holocaust-survivor-recalls-the-anschluss

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104 years old and still speaking out against anti-Semites!

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My grandparents couldnt believe any ill would come of it. Vienna was the height of civilization. unblock Mar 2018 #1
They are very, very lucky. BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #2
Very lucky indeed, as am I! unblock Mar 2018 #3
I have no problem with the teaching of these things in itself JI7 Mar 2018 #4

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(51,973 posts)
1. My grandparents couldnt believe any ill would come of it. Vienna was the height of civilization.
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 12:59 PM
Mar 2018

They didn’t leave until the ss came to take them away.

Fortunately, they found the three Jewish families they had been told lived in the building in two apartment units and never checked the third.

When the super found out they were still there he had to evict them on the spot.

First of several very close calls before they made it to America with my mother.m, then only a baby.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
2. They are very, very lucky.
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 04:52 PM
Mar 2018

My friend's relatives survived by living in a tree! I am serious.

I heard on the news that anti Semitism is on the rise again in Germany and that many blame the influx of Muslim immigrants so there is a discussion of making everyone visit Holocaust museums and watching films before it escalates.

unblock

(51,973 posts)
3. Very lucky indeed, as am I!
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 06:00 PM
Mar 2018

And yes, anti-semitism sees to never really go away, it just goes into remission....

JI7

(89,172 posts)
4. I have no problem with the teaching of these things in itself
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 08:29 AM
Mar 2018

But they also need to be punished including kicked out of the country.

You shouldn't need to know all these things to know how you should treat people and places.

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