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...reason for this frenzy was clear. Haider, who openly praised Hitler's "orderly" employment policies, should not be allowed to see his party govern a country that still has a long way to go in putting its role in World War II into perspective. The goals of this opposition, however, are far less obvious. In the beginning, it might have been to force the Freedom Party out of government. Later on, it was simply to show open discontent with the Austrian voters' decision to support a man who came to a meeting of former members of Hitler's Waffen...
...said the Danes seized on Hitler's more lenient attitude toward Nordic peoples--what he termed "the least Draconian occupation in Europe...
Goldhagen said he sees such an all-inclusive concept of the citizen as a missing link in World War II German culture that allowed ordinary citizens to become "active executioners" in Hitler's regime...
Goldhagen added that Hitler capitalized on the lack of cohesiveness within German society...
...portraying him as a Nazi and concurrently trivializing the Holocaust. Objectively, Gothic Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs, and was certainly not the creation of the Nazis, though they propagated variations of it until 1941 when Hitler halted its official use. Yet Haacke's previous works, like 1994's "Ernst Junger," make it hard to fully absolve the artist from Giuliani's accusations. In that installation, done also in Fraktur, the artist directly associates the typeface with Hitler. Given that this motif was also used...