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Dipl.-Vw. Dr. Ludwig Steiner

interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Wien
date of recording:
2008-04-29
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D´Incecco
event
[1943-02-22] "White Rose" Execution of resistance fighters Scholl and Probst. The resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst ("White Rose") to be executed in Munich. The resistance fighters from the Tyrol: Walter Caldonazzi. He was on 9 01. Beheaded in 1945 in Vienna.
place of recording
Innsbruck
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1944
transcription:
About Franz Thaler and his imprisonment in a concentration camp... There was a South Tyrolean, a certain Dr. Candalazzi, who had to leave South Tyrol with his family in 1922-23. He moved to Kramsach in the Inn valley. During the war he was in the resistance movement and was decapitated as an Austrian patriot and Christian Socialist at the provincial court in Vienna. The execution room still exists today. So far his acts have not been honoured at all in South Tyrol. I have tried different approaches. A Catholic fraternity which he belonged to managed to have a square in Hietzing, Vienna, named after him two years ago. In South Tyrol no one has shown interest, even though they were asked to. Dr. Candalazzi was from Vintschgau and is actually someone the South Tyroleans should be proud of. So it's a shame. By commemorating him again and again it should be possible to get a reaction. His is quite a typical case. Mr. Thaler's fate is hardly unique. It happened to many people who didn't opt (for Germany) and were active against National Socialism. So it's all the more surprising how that can be so totally ignored.