Word: austrian
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...bring the experience to life for students. And an extensive online archive featuring thousands of photographs and more than 1,350 interviews with elderly Jews still living in Central Europe, recently unveiled by a Vienna-based organization known as Centropa, is being used as a teaching aid in Austrian-German, Hungarian and some U.S. schools...
...head of the Alliance for the Future of Austria following Haider's death, held a press conference on the morning of the accident in which he repeatedly broke down in tears and referred to the loss of Haider as "the end of the world." In a subsequent interview on Austrian radio, Petzner said of Haider: "He often said to me, 'You are my lebensmensch [life partner]'. He and I know what this means, and it should stay between the two of us. I also loved him. Love can be expressed and shown in many different ways...
...should be taken in that way. Following the interviews, Petzner was passed over as parliamentary leader for the party. "Either he explains what was so special about his relationship with Haider, or he stops playing the role of successor and widow at the same time," blogged the editor of Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Michael Fleischhacker...
...Haider the night he died; several media outlets, including website scoop.at, allege the two men quarreled. Petzner has admitted that he rode with Haider for several hundred meters in his car before getting out. Eyewitnesses at a second bar, which Haider apparently visited after leaving Petzner behind, told Austrian reporters that Haider was drinking vodka heavily. The venue was described as a gay bar by several Austrian papers. After leaving, Haider was offered a lift home but insisted on driving himself. The coroner found high levels of alcohol in Haider's blood, Petzner himself later told reporters. "It is true...
...While most Austrian journalists were aware of the allegations about Haider from the early 1990s, they remained reluctant to publish anything - in part, says Hofer, because however polarizing Haider's politics, his sexual orientation was not considered particularly relevant; he may have been sympathetic with former Nazis and favored anti-immigrant policies, but he never opposed gay rights. Many critics also believed that attacking him on personal grounds would only shore up his support among those who considered the media...