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PAGE 20 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 4, 1986
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by Reinhard Engel
VIENNA (JTA)—Six former
Viennese Jewish high school stu
dents who were forced to leave
their classes in 1938 when the Nazis
took over, were awarded an honor
ary high school diploma here.
The Austrian minister for edu
cation and culture, Herbert Moritz,
and the president of the Vienna
school board, Hans Matzenauer,
said the awards were intended as a
small reparation for the sorrow
Jews have had to suffer in Austria.
In an allusion to President-elect
Kurt Waldheim, Moritz, a Social
ist, added that the awards of the
honorary degrees sought to dem
onstrate that forgetfulness has not
become an Austrian virtue.
Of the six men awarded diplo
mas, only five were present. They
are Dr. Egon Schwarz, a professor
at the Washington University in
St. Louis; Henry Anatol Grunwald,
editor of Time magazine; Dr. Ar
thur Cooper; Lynton Paul; and Dr.
Herbert Lamm. The sixth, Dr.
Walter Hirschfeld of the Univer
sity of Montreal, died only several
days earlier.
On April 28, 1938, the principal
of the gymnasium (high school) at
the Schottenbastei in the inner city
of Vienna entered the classrooms
and told the Jewish students that
they would have to leave.
In one class, 23 of 38 students
who were Jewish had to end their
high education; in another class, 18
of 40. Altogether. 274 of 634 stu
dents, or 43 percent, were forced
out of school.
The principal called the action
“a renewal of the school that was
organized with heart freshening
quickness.” His successor today,
Karl Hecht, called that day “the
darkest day in the history of our
school.”
In his speech, Moritz recalled
the tens of thousands of Austrian
Jews who were not able to flee and
who were cruelly murdered in con
centration camps. He also men
tioned that tens of thousands of
Austrians had welcomed Hitler
when he annexed his former home
country to the Third Reich.
“If we want to educate our youth
so that they get a firm and lasting
democratic way of thinking,”
Moritz said, “we must not forget to
come to terms with our past. But
this coming to terms cannot corn-
palliation.”
Moritz, pointed to the present
curricula in Austrian high schools
where students not only are taught
current history but also learn to
undertake their own research. Ac
cording to the minister, they carry
the discussions about the Nazis era
into their families where these things
had too often been swept under the
carpet.
“It seems that we have suffered a
hard blow in our striving for
democratic education,” Moritz said.
“Still, I do not think that we have
to start at zero hour. We have to
step up our ambitions, though.”
Moritz added that the presence
of people who had been treated
with so much injustice in this coun
will help us reach our goal.”
In response, Schwarz said that
the recent events caused several
other former students to change
their minds and not come to Vienna
for the ceremony. Several others
felt that an honorary diploma would
not compensate for the injustices
suffered.
For those who had come, he
said, “We do not consider states
and peoples monolithic structures,
but as societies compounded of
many conflicting forces and pow
ers. We do not want to forget the
horrors of the ’30s and ’40s. But
nothing prevents us from answer
ing a gesture of rapprochement
with readiness to meet.”
prise suppression, forgetfulness and try “gives reason for hope that they
Midwest extremist repudiated
at polls, in court, ADL reports
NEW YORK (JTA)—Midwest
extremists seeking to exploit the
farm crisis have been dealt new
setbacks, according to the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai B'rith.
The ADL cited the “strong repu
diation” of two right-wing guberna
torial candidates in the Republican
primary in Nebraska—who received
less than 9,000 of 190,000 votes—
and the conviction by a Colorado
jury of the publisher of a now
defunct anti-Semitic farm news
paper for crimes connected with
the publication.
The ADL said the candidates,
Everett Sileven and Paul Rosbcrg,
employed farm belt related issues
in their campaigns. Sileven, after
announcing his candidacy, spoke
at a rally in Nebraska sponsored by
an anti-Semitic paramilitary or
ganization and Rosberg had offered
his campaign contributors an
anti-Semitic book, according to
the ADL.
The editor, Roderick “Rick”
Elliott, was convicted last month
on 14 counts of theft and one of
conspiracy in connection with more
than $200,000 in unpaid loans made
primarily to his anti-Jewish Prim
rose Cattleman’s Gazette and to
the National Agriculture Press
Association, an extremist group
Elliott says he formed to combat
farm foreclosures. Barbara Cooper-
smith, associate director of ADL’s
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Denver office, testified as a witness
in the case.
Previous ADL analyses of the
efforts of extremists in the farm
belt, including an ADL-commis-
sioned Louis Harris poll conducted
in Iowa and Nebraska earlier this
year, revealed that their campaigns
to scapegoat Jews for the farm cri
sis have not been successful.
During the Nebraska election
campaign. Sileven, who is a pastor
of the Faith Baptist Church in
Louisville, Neb. appeared on the
same platform with Larry Humph
ries, founder of the anti-Semitic
paramilitary organization known
as the Heritage Library.
During the campaign, the ADL
noted, Sileven shared an office
with Rudy “Butch” Stanko Jr., a
Nebraska meat packer who in 1985
placed ads in Nebraska and Wyo
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“conspiracy” controls the economy
and media of the United States.
The ADL said that Rosberg, a
farmer from Wausau, Neb., recom
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that voters read “The Spotlight,”
the publication of the far right,
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