13.03.2013                      02.Nisan. 5773

Jüdische Welt:

Austrian president says Nazi past can't be forgotten

Heinz Fischer makes speech referring to memory of the Holocaust as a "wound", that if cleaned, "can heal without infection".

Austria cannot draw a line under its Nazi past despite the desire of many Austrians to so do, its president said on the 75th anniversary of the country's annexation by Nazi Germany.
Adolf Hitler and his troops marched unopposed on March 12, 1938 into an Austria weakened by political and economic turmoil and were cheered by hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom took part enthusiastically in the Holocaust that followed….