Austria Protects Its Adopted Nazi
IN June 2008, the Sun led with “We find wanted Nazi at Euro 2008” – news that Milivoj Asner was “welcoming his national side Croatia to his adopted Austrian town”.
Now the paper reports that the man who “signed orders for the deportation of Jews, gipsies and Serbs to death camps in the town where he lived in World War Two” is, according to his lawyer, “too ill to face trial”.
A face-to-face interview with the Sun showed that he was lucid and defiant. But justice officials in Austria last night insisted he is unfit to stand trial.
Anorak turns to Primo Levi’s book The Drowned And The Saved and a page in which the writer, a Holocaust survivor, looks at memory:
“Once again it must be observed, mournfully, that the injury cannot be healed: it extends through time, and the Furies, in which existence we are forced to believe, not only wrack the tormentor… but they perpetuate the tormentor’s work by denying space to the tormented.”
If human punishment can make the torturer suffer – then it must be used…
Posted: 1st, May 2009 | In: Media Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 am
As usual still fixated on the crimes of geriatric Croatian Nazis, as if the Serbs did not impose their royal dictatorhip on all Yugoslavs before WW2 from 1929 to 1941, did not have a Nazi state just as well that exterminated most Jews and Gypsies in Serbia and did not have their Partisans troops slaughter thousands of escaping Croats and Slovenes at Bleiburg in 1945. Moreover, as if Serbian Milosevic and Karadzic did not commit genocide against thousands of Croatian and Muslim civilians just a decade ago during their occupation of Bosnia and Croatia. Sorry, but it’s way too late for the Serbs to still play the victims when they paved the way for the Ustashi in the first place by imposing their Yugoslav dictature on their neighbors before WW2 and have already retaliated twice at the end of the war and much later in the 90’s. Enough with the hypocrisy !
May 1st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Of course he wont be braught to trial because the powers that be will never allow the genocide perpetrated against the Serbian nation in WW2 to be exposed.The old axis of evil still exists.If the crimes were against anyone other than the serbs he would already be on a plane,first class of course.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:51 pm
He should be brought to Justice.
But your comment that so many young people these days are struck with disease and die young?? It has always been that people die before their apparent time, and unless they were victims of this person and his crimes against humanity there isn’t any point in angsting about it.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Seems that Austria has a soft spot for Nazis. No matter what his health (the worse it is the better in fact!) he should be brought to justice. Growing into old age is a gift! So many young people these days are struck with disease and die young. This bastard Croatian-Nazi murdered people in the hundreds and perhaps the thousands… and he gets to grow old gracefully!?!?!? Disgusting! Shame on Austria!!!!