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Old 14th Jul 2003, 06:01
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Thumbs down Major Walter Nowotny

Anybody see this article in todays Sunday Telegraph.

I'm utterly gobsmacked and disgusted.

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Vienna council shifts Luftwaffe hero from plot of honour to pauper's grave.

David Ellensohn, a Vienna city councillor whose maternal grandfather was RAF acting pilot officer James Gillespie, successfully argued that Major Nowotny - the first fighter pilot in history to bring down 250 enemy aircraft - had been serving the Third Reich and did not deserve his heroic status.

"He was not fighting for this country, for Austria, he was fighting for the Third Reich," said Mr Ellensohn, a Green Party councillor. "If they had won the war, there would be no Austria as such. Therefore, we should not be forced to give special credit to this man."

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I can't seem to see any purpose or point in this,the war has been over for 60 years.
Once again the looney left and the PC brigade get their way.
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