14 Number 5, 1875 You Deserve ONLY THE BEST Good SERVICE • Low PRICE Add 'n Type 342-7800 399-8333 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Wiesenthal Challenges Kreisky on Nazi Issue (Continued from Page 1) A: Now it became a per- sonal matter of Kreisky. He puts his weight behind the NEW CHEVROLET? see JAY DI KIN for New & Used Cars & Trucks JACK CAULEY CHEVROLET 22346 Woodward at 81/2 Mile Rd. LI 7-6500 JO 4-5575 NTLEMEN'S QUARTER 4 Q: What is Kreisky accus- ing you of? A: He said that I am run- ning a Mafia, a private pol- ice, and insinuated that I have been a Nazi agent dur- ing the war and therefore escaped the concentration camps. Consequently, Aus- trian democracy cannot per- mit the prolongation of this. . Q: How does Kreisky jus- tify his allegations? A: In 1968, I published a dossier on Polish anti- Semitism, which resulted in a heavy propaganda assault from the East. Kreisky draws from these sources his unfound alle- gations. He also said that he would never have granted me Austrian citi- zenship if lw would have had anything to say at the time it was granted to me. ***, WHERE YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD TIME LOOKING GREAT. REPEAT BY POPULAR DEMAND Our 20% to 50% OFF attack to ruin my reputa- tion and very existence in Austria. Gentlemen's Quarter 26820 Southfield Rd. at 11 Mile Lathrup Village 557-3060 Monday Thursday Friday 10 to 8:30 Tuesday Wednesday Saturddy 10 to 6 All major credit cards honored Q: What could Kreisky credit Wiesenthal, the man gain from your character who for 30 years has relent- assassination? lessly exposed Nazis. He is A: There are 300,000 credited with having helped former Nazis in Austria. to hunt down Eichmann and These are valuable votes about 3,500 other Nazis and which Kreisky needed to recently has even opened a win the elections. After the file on Interpol, the interna- war there were about tional police agency. 600,000 Nazis. Kreisky's hatred for Q: What happened to the Wiesenthal is nothing other 300,000? A: Only a fraction of them short of pathological. His were brought to trial, the attacks are hysterical. His rest found the natural biol- allegations do not include ogical solution, they died a facts, but smearing gener- alities, such as 'Mafia', natural death in freedom. Q: Are the former Nazis `Private Police' and hints. in Austria now active in Kreisky knows the trut public life? In the govern- and so do his comrades, but he shouts: 'Political ment? In the police? murder'. He still remem- A: They are everywhere. Q: Was it not Kreisky who bers that five years ago capitualated to the Arab Wiesenthal forced the res- ignation of a minister in terrorists at the time? A: Yes, he decided to close Kreisky's cabinet by the Schoenau Camp run by charging that he had been the Jewish Agency, which an SS officer. served as a transit camp for Like the conjurer on the Jewish emigrants from Rus- stage, he has to distract all sia to the free world. attention from the real is- Q: What do you intend to sue. By using every possible do now? emotion, by mixing pa- A: I shall continue to triotic appeal with hate, fight. Many individuals in demagogy and slander, he Austria and even political tries to rouse primitive emo- supporters of Kreisky have tions of the masses and written protest letters to fights a war of nerves. For him. he cannot disprove facts. Q. What kind of support What he tries to do is to as- to you expect? sassinate the character of A: The people should be an innocent man. informed of the nature of To divert public attention the attack on me. - I need the people's and the Jewish or- from himself he needs a ganizations' support. They bogeyman—a 'dangerous should write protest letters enemy'; and what is more to Kreisky, as a group of convenient than a Jew? academics has done in Aus- Worse still, he is giving anti- Semitism stimulus and the tria. Q. Could you send me the only beneficiaries of the documentation you have on hate campaign are the Nazis the Nazi past of Freidrich and Neo-Nazis in Austria Peter, the exposure of which and elsewhere. And Peter — caused the recent attacks on he is turned into a martyr. your character? Ironically, Kreisky is a A: I'll send it by express born Jew, but he does not mail. Two days later I had the consider himself to be one documentation. After pe- and denies the existence of a rusal of the file, I arrived Jewish People. He said to at the conclusion that the the Israeli reporter Seev documentation is unim- Bart: "If there exists a Jew- ish nation, then it is an ugly peachable. Freidrich Peter, born July one."' 13, 1921 in Attnang-Puch- Kreisky may delude him- heim, served in the 10th re- self, but he can rest assured giment of the 1st Infantry that those he tries to protect Brigade of the SS and was and befriend will remind Ober-Sturmfuhrer. as of him of his ancestry in due Sept. 14, 1944. His regi- course. It has happened Be- ment, among other atroci- fore. ties, took part in the Meanwhile, the Anti- "Swampfever" action which, according to records, had Defamation League of shot 389 bandits, 1,274 sus- Bnai Brith called on the pects tried and shot, 8,350 Austrian Parliament last Jews executed and 1,217 week to waive Kreisky's persons evacuated. Now he immunity so that he may is the leader of the right- testify in the slander suit wing Freiheitlichen Partei brought against him by Wiesenthal. of Austria. Before the October elec- According to Seymou tions, Kreisky, the leader of Reich, chairman of ADL's the Socialists, considered a European affairs commit- coalition with Peter's party, tee, "Millions of people .. . and the exposure of Peter have a right to know the revealed that Herr Kreisky source and nature of Chan- neither suffers from scru- cellor Kreisky's most ser- ples nor "prejudice", but ious allegation." pursues a "Realpolitik" to Referring to some 3,500 stay in power. The exposure, however, war criminals — foremost had repercussions in his among them Adolf Eich- own party. Many of his so- mann — who have faced cialist party members and trial after being located by supporters are anti-Nazis, or with the aid of Wiesen- who were disturbed by their thal's Nazi Documentation Center, Reich said that Wie- leader's opportunism. As Kreisky had no moral senthal's record since the defense. he decided to dis- war has been "exemplary." .4twaiomommosimikomelmmostisioisio:.