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Veterans of Hitler's army remember fallen comrades
• GRAZ, Austria. May 24 : Bent but proud, veterans of Hitler's army. Including hundreds who served in the elite Waffen SS, laid wreaths Saturday at a memorial to fallen comrades, as a speaker Intoned: "We were betrayedf. reports AP.
About 500 former soldiers and their wives gathered in pouring rain at the Soldiers' Cemetery in Graz for the ceremony in honour of the 4Oth anniversary of the Kameradschaft IV old comrades association.
Invoking spirits and natural forces communing with the fallen, the ceremony's unidentified official speaker called out : "don't tell them we were betrayedl".
The event s organizer, Franz Scheucher of the Kameradschaft s Styria province chapter, said the soldiers who had only done their duty felt stabbed in the back after the war.
"My generation felt betrayed," Scheucher told reporters. We were left in the lurch".
The commemorative meeting — the fourth since the Kameradschaft was formed after the World War If — attracted attention after two well-known politicians promised to act as pa-
trons.
After a public outcry over their participation, Styria provincial Gov. Josef Kralner and Franz Wegart, speaker of the provincial assembly, were released from their commitments by the group last week.
Austria recently pul teeth into its anti-Nazi laws. In part to challenge foreign views that Austrians — many of whom enthusiastically supported their absorption into Nazi Germany in 1938 — have not learned from the war. The Interior Ministry earlier this month began investigating whether the Kameradschaft violated laws against reviving Nazism.
Wegart attended the gathering Saturday and called the veterans "honorable people", who are constantly "cursed and spat upon".
The men In the group, most in their late 70s and early 80s, wore iron crosses and other World War II German military decorations. Some sported ties with the Iron Cross insignia
Many were missing limbs. Some had to be supported by their wives at the granite memorial erected to honor the World War II dead. Most refused to speak to reporters
Those who did expressed pride tn their wartime service
"W^ fought to deliver the world from the Bolsheviks,'' said one man in his late 70s, dressed In the uniform like green suit coal commonly worn by older Austrian men. his chest bedecked with medals,
The SS were an elite army formation of nearly 1 million men under the command of Heinrich Himmler, the man entrusted by Adolf Ilitler to liquidate Jews.
Waffen SS troops normally were on the bat tlcfteld. As such, say former members, they were separate from the black-shtrtcd "Death's Head units which guarded Nazi concentration and death camps.
But some units were implicated In atrocities on the front line. The Nuremberg trials, which passed Judgment over Nazi leaders, deemed the Waffen SS a criminal organization.
Asked whether the Waffen SS was Involved In war crimes, the elderly veteran snapped :
Nonsense!"
Like most participants, he refused to give
his name. Several denied that the Holocaust occurred. Some grudgingly said ft must have happened because so much had been written about ft. Their words lacked conviction, and they seemed to be spoken for the benefit of reporters.
One silver-haired woman berated a reporter and tried to knock his notebook frqm his hands as the procession made Its way back to the front gate of the cemetery.
"Don't say anything to them," she hissed at a nearby veteran They just write lies anyway."
Others were more conciliatory
"Every death Is a lamentable thing, no matter which side lost a man," said Benno Artner, a doctor from Lieboch. lust outside Graz. "The question I* : can’t we forget past wrongs after all this time?"
Anne Waldorf, of Mainz, part of a busload of German veterans and their wives, expressed wonder at the media interest.
They're just a bunch of old men who have nothing better to do." she satd. They Just gather and are happy to see each other. They don't talk about the war anymore.'