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AUSTRALIA, PEACE AT LAST
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| It took many years to
repair the psychological damage that Hitler Austria had caused. In every
way, from the unloving and unspiritualised upbringing to the exaggeration
of war and death caused by my experiences in the Austrian army. From
personal growth work shops to the treatment by psychologists. But I was in
the right place. In a country that truly cared - Australia.
Had Austria been a country spiritually not so retarded, I guess they would have realized that I was unable to be a soldier. But then again it wouldn't be Hitlerisch by wanting to play war all the time and desiring to show to the world through their army how good they are as they have the power to throw the stick at them. |
PEACE AND LOVE AT LAST! |
| Australia is a truly
peace loving nation. It has no egoistical need to show to other
countries "that it is good and great", as it is able "to
shoot them" if they wish. This "stupid egoistical
mentality" simply does not exist.
I had found a position with Philips Communications System as a Communications technicians in April 1978 and economically I was doing fine. I managed what I could never have achieved in Austria in such a brief period of time, namely to buy a house, which by 1985 was payed off and truly ours. I managed to do that even with a nice overseas holiday thrown into it, in just seven years. Mind you, that within this seven year time frame, the money owed for the house was also completely paid back to the bank. I must point out here that the only thing I came to Australia for was because I did not want to be a soldier and not for the extra achievements that I happened to find on the way. |
Within 3 years of arrival in Australia we purchased this house. Within another 4 years it was truly ours as the bank loan was paid out. |
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In Austria the only thing I could have called an achievement is not having to go to court and be thrown into jail for not wanting to have anything to do with the army. (Ein total Armee verblödetes Land) a country totally pathetically stupid and crazy about its military. We had a few overseas holidays to South east Asia in 1983 and 1998. But I never returned to Austria, the bad memories about this Armee verblödetes Land is just too much for me. In 1983 I was granted Australian citizenship at the age of 29 and Have been proud of my new country ever since. I was never forced into doing any military service and nobody else is. This is probably a country worth fighting for, should the need arise. The army here has nothing to do with "harassing young men into obedience by the means of fear of authority". I believe I am too old to become a soldier for this country, but soldiers here are treated with an appropriate respect. They are not treated like shit! |
My wife during a wedding in 1984. This picture was taken in Melbourne. |
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I invited my mother to come to Australia in 1985 and it was the first overseas trip in her life and also the fist time on an aeroplane. She was very impressed, but I must also say that there is a big difference if you have relatives or friends here who know where to go and what to do. She stayed most of her time at the hinterland of the Gold coast where Eric, my brother lives. Eric also moved to Australia in 1973 to get out of the Austrian military service. He managed to escape completely, but he had to sleep in his car in Vienna to pretend to my parents that he is overseas, so that they would return the blackmail letter from the army when it comes, which eventually happened. It was so difficult for him to leave his Austria that he deliberately missed the flight to Australia one day ahead. He told the Australian Immigration just one day before he was meant to leave that he has changed his mind and that he intends to stay in Austria. But when reality struck, after he missed the "flying Moses" he came to his senses through the fear of the military. He then started to run out of time for another departure date six months later and that is when he slept in the car to pretend to our parents he was in Germany. He had to learn to be realistic. If you are not a Hitler (an army arshole), you must get out of Austria. All this happened during the time I was in the army and as the army was a kind of jail (the worst kind), I had almost no contact with him. He did leave and suffered many years of severe homesickness. I lived with him in Sydney during my first stay in Australia, and because he lived as if he was going back to Austria at any time quite miserably by not buying anything like a car. It was a permanent live built on temporary principle. |
My mother (on the left) during her stay in Australia. This picture was taken at a rebuilt old time model town at Kurumbarra in Victoria. She is holding my son and I am the fat guy on the right. This picture was taken in 1985.
My wife and my son Christian in the early 1980s, also taken at Kurumbarra. |
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Eric now lives with his family in the sunny township of Townsville in Northern Queensland. He loves flying aeroplanes, something which in Austria would have been beyond his dreams. In 1986 my other son, the only true Aussie was born in Frankston Victoria. In 1989 we moved to Townsville where we purchased a take away business and almost went bankrupt. However over the years we recovered from it. During my life here in Far Northern Queensland, I also joined a personal growth work shop, because I was not happy inside myself for not having been able to have a girlfriend when I was young. It ended up with some affairs with some women, which however my marriage had survived. My wive was intelligent enough to look beyond the causes of this. It was also then when I realized that my limitation were a product of Austrian upbringing (some are from past lives). |
To the right is my wife. The toller woman beside her is one of her friends. The background is the snowy river coming from the snowy mountains. This picture was taken ca 200km south from Mount Kosciosko and is looking towards it to the north. |
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My mother died towards the end of 1992 and by that time my older brother had inherited what ever was left. I can well understand my mother as her oldest son was the only one left to be with her. I am now living where I want to live and I have forgotten about how terrible Austria is. I only think about it when I type web pages or when I notice the ringing of my right ear and its deafness. I have long put a line underneath the experiences, and got on with my life, but I still believe that the world should know about the suffering caused by a regime and people who are totally intolerant towards others who simply chose not to be a soldier. Nobody should have the right to invade the psychic of another human being.
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A family picture at our house in Townsville in 1992.
My Austrian born and older son and me. |
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CONCLUSIONNobody should be forced out of his country like a criminal without having committed a crime. Those people who are responsible for making such unjust laws were never brought to justice, never punished and this is wrong. For as long as I live I will show the shame of a people and a nation who have committed such an act of wrongfulness. Werner Sandner |
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