The Jewish contribution was immense. Intellectual, cultural, music & philosophical & literature + science & of course psychology with the legendary Sigmund Freud! So much destruction- for what?
Thank you for making this. As I piece together my family’s history in Vienna, seeing a sense of what the city was like and the Jewish stories really helps to see beyond the cold transportation lists.
Jews in Europe were thrown under the bus by Zionists..The Rothschilds were not even real Jews. Neither were Albert Pike or Theodor Herzl; yet they destroyed so much for real Jews. Another great source on Jewish history is professor Ilan Pappé. He´s very honest..And very nice.
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
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?
Thank you for making this. As I piece together my family’s history in Vienna, seeing a sense of what the city was like and the Jewish stories really helps to see beyond the cold transportation lists.
I’m doing the same. Good luck with your search 🙏
Same with me too
Jews in Europe were thrown under the bus by Zionists..The Rothschilds were not even real Jews. Neither were Albert Pike or Theodor Herzl; yet they destroyed so much for real Jews.
Another great source on Jewish history is professor Ilan Pappé. He´s very honest..And very nice.
Shared this Program as always. Awewome and as always, tastefully and packed- full of information, in a short documentary.
Thanks for sharing! 👌👋
This was amazing. Thank you
Thank you very much for making and sharing this.
This is really an excellent documentary film, thank you for making this. Just one thing I must say - tuck in your shirt!
Moses didn’t tuck in his shirt.
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!❤
This is very informative and interesting
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..
Should not religious output be more important than cultural output?
very well made!
If we don't learn from the failures of our past,
future might get worse....
Thx for the upload!
Nice country.
Sadly still many nazis here :(
Why did jews have German names and surnames...
Thank you.