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...rambling psychobiography, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (Knopf; 757 pages; $35), Austrian-born journalist Gitta Sereny examines her subject's troubled life and problematic writings in microscopic detail. Sereny extensively interviewed Speer and his wife Margret at their retirement home in Heidelberg and talked with dozens of acquaintances. Her conclusion: emotionally crippled by an unhappy childhood, Speer was a frustrated romantic whose reciprocated love for Hitler--a sublimated, nonsexual but homoerotic devotion--blinded him to dark realities he chose not to see or hear. In effect, Speer existed in what the Dutch Protestant theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft...
Later in 1990, Havel effectively broke the international isolation of Austrian Nazi-cum-President Kurt Waldheim by visiting him in Salzburg. Havel did castigate the still-dissembling Waldheim by telling him, "Lying can never save us from the lie." Yet the Czech leader's visit unjustifiably dignified Waldheim...
...spot had turned into "a pool of oily water on the floor. I noticed this quite offensive smell that I can't really describe." Others smelled it too and edged away. By Kamiyacho station, 11 minutes after the strange man had boarded, commuters panicked. Says Matthias Vukovich, an Austrian student who was in the car: "Everyone just ran off, and I didn't know what was going on. Someone yelled, 'It's gas!'" Looking back, Vukovich, whose eyes and head were beginning to hurt, glimpsed the puddle. Next to it sat an immobile old man. His name, it turned...
Hundreds of rosaries line the showcases--Austrian crystal with rhodium finish, cubic zirconia or sterling silver and semi-precious stones. Depending on the size of your wallet or the extent of your piety, you can choose a rosary for less than a dollar or more than...
Addressing Israel's parliament, Austria's president apologized today for his country's role in the Holocaust. Austrians have rarely acknowledged the fact that "many of the worst henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship were Austrians," President Thomas Klestil said. "Today, we Austrians recognize that an acknowledgment of the full truth was long overdue." The speech came at the end of Klestil's three-day visit to Israel -- the first by an Austrian head of state. For years, Austria denied persecuting Jews during World War II, even though 70,000 died within its borders. The relationship between Israel and Austria...