2 TYPES OF POLITICIANS - Viktor Frankl

In this timeless speech, Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" speaks out against the concept of "collective guilt" as a continuation of Nazi-ideology. Recorded in 1988 on the occasion of Austria´s annexation by Nazi Germany 1938.

[@shelll9254]

To overcome these attrocoties, and come out the other side full of the understanding of humanism is a incredible feat. Shalom. ✌️💗

[@moanabianchin7342]

0.12 "Mr Mayor, fellow Viennese, I hope for your understanding when I must ask you to commemorate together with me in this memorial hour: My father, who perished in the camp of Terezin. My brother, who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. My mother, who died in the same camp in the gas chamber, and my first wife who lost her young life in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp." 1.09 "However I ask you not to expect a single word of hatred from me. Who should I hate? I knew only the victims but I do not know the perpetrators, at least I do not know them in person. And to judge somebody, not in person, but collectively, I strictly reject. Collective guilt does not exist! And believe me, I did not start saying this today - but I have been saying this from the day I was liberated from my last concentration camp. And I believe that collectively judging the men and women of Austria who are today between 0 and 50 years old, judging them collectively is a crime and madness. Or let me put it in psychiatric terms: It would be a crime if it wasn't a case of madness. And additionally a relapse into the Nazi-ideology of 'clan liability'." 2.51 "Let this be said to those who think they are justified to say that one has to feel guilty or even feel ashamed of something that one has not done oneself, or did not refrain from doing, but something that the parents, or even the grandparents burdened their conscience with. And I am pretty sure that the former victims of collective persecutions should be the first, and will be the first, to agree with me on that, unless their intention is to drive today's young into the hands of the old Nazis or Neo-Nazis." 3.47 "Let me come back to my liberation for a moment. I returned to Vienna with the first possible, albeit illegal transport, crammed into a truck together with a couple of other people from Vienna, among them Rosa Jochmann [an Austrian resistance activist and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor who became a politician] on August 15, 1945. Since then I have been invited to by universities, etc. America 63 times. And each of these 63 times I came back to Austria. Not because the Austrians love me all that much, but because I love Austria, and as we know love is at times one-sided. But every time I visited America Americans would ask me: 'Tell us, Mr Frankl, why didn't you come to us already before the war?' My answer was as follows: I had to explain how I had to wait for years for an immigration visa to America. And when it finally got approved it was already too late. Because I just could not bring myself to leave my elderly parents behind in Vienna in the middle of war, and leave them to their fate under the Nazis. But I preferred instead to share their fate." 5.42 "And then they say 'Alright but why didn't you at least come to America right after the war? Why did you return to Vienna? Did the Viennese not do enough harm to you and your beloved?' Then I tell them, 'Look, in Vienna there used to live, for example, a Catholic baroness, who by the way discovered and sponsored the great workers' poet, Alfons Petzold. She kept a cousin of mine hidden in her apartment as a (so-called) 'sub-marine' through the whole war, saving her life. 6.28 "And another example. There was a socialist lawyer who, also risking his life, slipped food to me whenever he could. Do you know who that was? It was Bruno Pittermann" [Austrian politician and statesman - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pittermann] And then I ask the Americans, 'Now tell me, into a city which there are people like this, why should I NOT have gone back?'"

[@remixandkaraoke]

I appreciate you typing out most of the text of Dr. Frankl's speech. I'd planned to do this myself and save it as a word file. You saved me a lot of effort. Thank you very much!

[@Dan-DJCc]

Gotta love this man.

[@nozarm]

Thank you for sharing this powerful, important, and timely speech by Victor Frankl 🙏🏽

[@jakedee4117]

I have deep respect for Viktor Frankl and the more of his work I see the more my respect grows.

[@remixandkaraoke]

I'm with you. Would you like to be friends and work together to make a compassionately loving, profoundly positive, deeply meaningful and lasting difference in our society with me?

[@rozrena3959]

Thank you for uploading.

[@Because_Reasons]

If only more people in the "west' heard this speech today.

[@DavidByers1eye]

Thank You . . . 1 Eye . . .

[@charliefarrell4888]

No reason to go blind for vengeance.

[@remixandkaraoke]

Hi there! My name is Seth. I earned a degree in cinema and television production from LACC in 2013. I'm currently not working any personal projects and would be honored to have the opportunity to volunteer in the making of videos for this channel along with those who started it. Viktor Frankl is one of my greatest heroes, along with others who've stood up for what's right in our recent past, and have supported those being oppressed in a mature and thoughtful way like Mahatma Gandhi, FDR, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, MLK, Jr., JFK. RFK, John Lennon and those who continue to do so today like Gabor Mate', Aaron Mate', Jimmy Dore and Roger Waters. Having said this, I have a question for you... How may I be of service?

[@libertybabe6086]

Thank you so much for posting this. Absolutely incredible talk. So much to learn here. I truly love Viktor Frankl. I wish that there was someone like him around now. And he spoke of Nationalist Socialism. That's who the Nazis were isn't it? I believe that something like that might be happening here in the U.S. today.

[@ingridlinbohm7682]

Beatus Franz Jägerstätter ora pro nobis.

[@welcometooaudioland7877]

Did any one understand the politician comparison?