Schwarzenegger’s Nazi problem

[VermontDem2004]

Here’s a question Jay Leno forgot to ask Arnold Schwarzenegger when he announced his candidacy for governor of California on last night’s “Tonight Show”: “Will you renounce your support for Kurt Waldheim?”

A LITTLE REFRESHER course may be in order. Kurt Waldheim, a widely esteemed former secretary general of the United Nations, was running for president of Austria in March 1986 when it came to light that he had participated in Nazi atrocities during World War II. Waldheim had always maintained that he had served in the Wehrmacht only briefly and that after being wounded early in the war, he had returned to Vienna to attend law school.
In fact, Waldheim had resumed military service after recuperating from his injury and had been an intelligence officer in Germany’s Army Group E when it committed mass murder in the Kozara region of western Bosnia. (Waldheim’s name appears on the Wehrmacht’s “honor list” of those responsible for the atrocity.) In 1944, Waldheim had reviewed and approved a packet of anti-Semitic propaganda leaflets to be dropped behind Russian lines, one of which ended, “enough of the Jewish war, kill the Jews, come over.”

One month after these revelations began to splash across the front pages of newspapers worldwide, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver exchanged wedding vows at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport. Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, had invited Waldheim to the wedding, which of course can’t be held against him because the invitations surely went out well before the war crimes story broke. (Schwarzenegger, who held dual citizenship in Austria and the United States, had also endorsed Waldheim.)
Waldheim didn’t attend, but he sent a gift — a statue of Arnold, in lederhosen, bearing off Maria, who wore a dirndl. Admiring it, Schwarzenegger offered a tribute that stunned the assemblage into shocked silence (this is reported in Arnold: The Unauthorized Biography, by Wendy Leigh):
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/949666.asp?0cv=CB20

I don't hold people accountable for stuff his/her father did, I don't care what someone said 20+ years ago. But I do care about what is said in this article.

[cherryperry]

1. As if I needed one more thing to make me despise this guy!

Here I thought he might actually have felt badly over his father and that's maybe why he kept giving donations to the Weisenthal Center, you enlighten me with this gem! I do appreciate it, however; please do not mistake my disgust as my possibly blaming the messenger - that's not it at all. Ahnold needs to go away and leave us Californians alone! All I can say is he'd better not win; if he actually does, I'm taking a sabbatical and will return upon his return to (not) acting. Reagan and Wilson have been bad enough, however I don't believe they were out-and-out Nazi supporters; AS takes the lead on this one and I don't believe I can stay if he becomes governor. Give me strength!

:argh: :grr: :wtf: :evilfrown:

[hang a left]

2. so very interesting.....isn't it

whistlenegger and bush. Arnies dad and Bush's granddad. I say their connections to each other are far deeper than others might think.

[shanti]

4. hmmm...

interesting...

[bobthedrummer]

8. Deeper than anyone thinks, RW Republicans sponsored Nazi's

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

[5thGenDemocrat]

3. Schwarzenegger's Nazi problem

Apparently, Arnold doesn't HAVE a problem with Nazis.
John
As for the statue of him (in lederhosen) bearing off Maria (in a dirndl)? Barf.

[dfong63]

5. a better idea

get those british TV ladies who accused him of groping them, on the same show. let him deny it to their faces. let them answer his denials. let the public decide who's lying.

bring on the author/interviewer of the Oui magazine article. have him read it to Arnold. then ask him again about his drug use.

[emad]

6. Nazis seem the least of Arnie's problems.......

it's the self publicity and an unshakeable belief in his own mythology ("I have shown leadership!!!") that really suck, and - oh -his wife needs a makeover..........

[Bandit]

7. Right

I heard him say last night, "I did not live my life to become Governor" In other words "It's about Character" Have you ever heard that phrase?

[ComerPerro]

9. This is not a problem for the REICH wing

They know that you know they supported the Nazi party, and still support its twisted ideals and facist principals.
But do you know that they will soon be coming for you?
Not them, of course. But a brainwashed FReeper will soon be coming to kill your or haul you away, proudly goose-stepping and saluting George W Bush.