Fritzl Watch: Making Nazis, Monsters And Austrians
FRITZL Watch: Anorak’s look at Josef Fritzl, Elisabeth Fritzl, Nazis and assorted Frtizls in the news
THE GUARDIAN: “The human monster”
When we seek for causes that distance us “nice” people from the actions of those the media likes to label as “monsters”, Nazi or otherwise, we also dilute the very sense of vigilance and awareness that, perhaps, one day might give help to the most vulnerable at a time when it makes the difference between life and death, or a living death.
COURIER MAIL (Aus): “Spotlight on Austrian horrors”
An interview with writer and filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, who directed The Counterfeiters, teh first Austrian film to win an Oscar:
Austrians, particularly in the wake of the Fritzl case, have been depicted as a nation of people who look away from their problems. But Ruzowitzky sees his film as a way for today’s generation of Austrians to face the problems of the past.
“This is part of your country’s history, this is part of your family’s history,” he says. “My grandparents – some more, some less – had been followers of the Nazi Party. On my mother’s side, there were party members…
“Everybody would agree that the Holocaust is a major crime but still some people think the Holocaust is collateral damage, that Nazism actually was a good thing..
A Nazi business…
May 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Think they are barking up the wrong tree over all this.
How many crimes similar to this case go on world wide?
We just need one more like the Wests and shall we be looking to our wartime activities then?
In both Austrian cases, the victims are mostly alive, and if strong enough to survive incarcration, then surely strong enough to attempt to recover.
The West victims are mostly dead at the hands of the Wests, and the Jersey findings, what of them.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Is it not the attempt to distance ourselves from the horrors, to pretend that they only happen somewhere else, to someone else, and that therefore we can live our lives without having to bother about anything other than ourselves?
It seems to me to be the other side of the same coin; the obsessive belief that child abductors lurk on every street corner is just as far removed from objective reality.
Of course, both sell a lot of newspapers…
May 8th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Austrians hide their abuse of their children. In Ireland horrific abuse was carried out openly because it was “culturally acceptable”. Children were the chattels of their fathers and the state only intervened if the child carried out a crime. I believe this law was inherited from the UK where similar abuse has also openly occured. Let’s all start throwing racist stones for a worldwide crime.