What happens to a society after the war? Between the fall 1944 and spring 1945, two American occupation soldiers answered this question very differently. The historian Florian Traussnig baptized in the “Fall Aken” on the symposium “transitions” on Friday in Graz and describes the exciting war effort by fleeing Austrians in the intelligence services of the United States.
In Aachen, the first larger German city, who could eat Hitler’s US Army, these two intelligence experts fought against a real “match”. They fought behind the scenes in front of the political post order order in the old imperial city of Aachen.
It was about human rivalry, power – but also about reconstruction and democracy. What the two “gis” (popularly known for American soldiers, note): they came from the heart of Hitler Germany as ex-Austrians and knew language, mentality and customs of the German enemy. They were insiders – and used their knowledge to talk to a word policy.
One, Francis Seidler, a formerly noble and “austrorofascist” political secretary and “1938” refugee for the national socialists, now had one of the first access to Bishop Johannes van der Velden. With the help of the Chief Shepherd it was possible to install a city council to be tolerated by the new occupancy power around Mayor Franz Oppenhoff.
The conservative, capitalist and so -called “fascist” composition of the new political leadership, Saul Padover, an idealistic historian and socialist secret service with Viennese roots, conceived: with sharp political interrogations and a flaming pamphlet, he caused a tangible scandal that has been written on the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the US population of the occupation policy of the occupation policy of the US population policy of the occupation policy of the US population of the US population policy of the occupancy policy of the US population of the US population policy of the US population policy of the US population.
The drama spoke even further with the murder of the mayor. But the American army learned from the “Aachen case” and then paid attention to a more balanced position in the liberal of Hitler Germany.
Source: Krone
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