Re: Juenger/Harrer

[adriano p palma <adriano.palma@usa.net>]

Ulrich Oswald wrote:
> 
> Umberto Rossi wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone noticed a parallel between the criticism of Jünger and
> > > the hoopla over the discovery that Heinrich Harrer, author of SEVEN
> > > YEARS IN TIBET, was an SS officer before he went to India and
> > > thence to Tibet.  I mean the attempt to knock down a heroic figure
> > > who has gone his own way for many decades.
> >
> > Yes, but being an officer of the SS and being an officer of an
> > front line infantry battalion of the Wehrmacht ain't the same
> > ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same sport.  Harrer
> > mission, from what I gather from the media, was funded because Himmler
> > wished to find evidences for his racist theories.  They were looking
> > for the place where the Aryans came from, or something like that.
> >
> >
> 
> Re: Harrer, Waldheim, and many others:
> 
> Somewhere in "Der Fragebogen" by Ernst von Salomon (Hey - who of you all
> knows Ernst v.Salomon?) somebody speakes the dark and heavy phrase:
> "Hitler compromises the German people". And indeed - thousands of German
> and Austrian fathers after the war tried (a little helplessly, I must
> admit) to explain to thousands of their sons - looking at them from blue
> eyes to blue eyes - that they had  heavily and shamelessly been lied at
> by the Nazis. The lying didn't consist only in producing false or
> retaining true facts but also, which is perhaps more important, in a
> false use of the language,  "newspeak" as called by George Orwell. It
> began with the Nazi self presentation as (national) "socialists" and it
> ended up with the SS-slogan "Unsere Ehre sei Treue" (our honor be
> faith). And it lead to the fact that harmless student organizations,
> football teams, Wandervogel, youth sport organizations, and many others
> overnight became part of the SS or SA. (Imagine the Denver Beavers
> suddenly finding themselves "equalized" as suborganization of the KKK,
> just after the rednecks having won the general elections!!!) This
> happened also to the gentlemen Harrer and  Waldheim among hundreds of
> thousands others. Their private little tragedy: They felt themselves
> honoured by the act and tried to be faithful. Only a long time later
> they learned that their faith didn't seem so honorable at all. Even when
> they didn't make themselves guilty in the strict sense of the word,
> there lies a black shadow on all of them which cannot be washed off.
> Serves them right: Why did they have to be born in that country between
> 1900 and 1935. And why didn't they possess the intelligence - like our
> hero did - to see clairvoyantly through the cards of the evil game. And
> even if they saw through: what would they have done against it? (Which
> is the black spot on Junger).
> 
> Happy new year, and may we all enter a better century than the one which
> lasted from 1914 to 1989.
> 
> Ulrich Oswald
> 
> http://www.ulri.ch
yes i read von salomon, why?



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