I Guess He Didn’t Admire Adolf Too Much
Via the Angry Clam comes this story (German language) reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger joined forces with a bunch of anti-Nazi punks in 1964 to bust up a rally by pro-Nazi punks. Here’s a quick and dirty Enlgish translation of the article:
Friday, October 3, 2002, 7:12 p.m. Central European Time
Magazine: Schwarzenegger Disrupted Neonazi March in Graz in 1964
(AFP) According to a Jewish magazine, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a teenager helped disrupt a Neonazi rally in his native Austria. As the magazine “NU” reported in its September issue, the 17-year-old Schwarzenegger helped some anti-fascists disrupt a Neonazi demonstration. Octogenarian Alfred Gerstl told the magazine that Schwarzenegger, as a body builder, had acted along with a group of other strong young boys against the right wingers. Gerstl, who was once an active supporter of the conservatives in Austria, claims to know Schwarzenegger from the time when Arnold was a friend of his son Karl.
October 3rd, 2003 at 11:56 am
Then again, Arnold’s nazi lovin’ was later on, so maybe some of the rally made an impression on Herr Schwarzenegger.
October 3rd, 2003 at 12:33 pm
LOL, David on TV concerend about Arnold’s comments about Hitler.
Poor guy, he’s reduced to running against a non existing issue, a dead dictator and a dead phylosophy.
He deserves to be fired.
October 3rd, 2003 at 12:47 pm
> Then again, Arnold’s nazi lovin’ was later on, so maybe some of the rally made an impression on Herr Schwarzenegger.
Yeah sure.
October 3rd, 2003 at 1:00 pm
Was it? The interview in question was in 1975, but it was in the past tense. Maybe he admired Hitler when he was 3 and his Dad read him Nazi bed time stories, but he burned out on the stuff sometime before he turned 17.
I will say, though, that this whole Nazi tempest/teapot was a Godsend for Arnold, as it quickly drew attention away from the issue that had legs (so to speak).
October 3rd, 2003 at 1:30 pm
Google Translation Bot comes pretty close…but with a Terminator-like twist:
Magazine: Schwarzenegger blew up 1964 in Graz neo-Nazi marching-up
(AFP) According to a Jewish magazine Arnold Schwarzenegger helped as a young person to blow up a marching-up of neo-Nazis in its Austrian homeland. As the magazine “NU” reported in its expenditure for September, the 17-jaehrige Schwarzenegger helped anti-fascists at that time to disturb a demonstration from neo-Nazis to. Schwarzenegger proceeded 1964 as Bodybuilder as well as other strong young in Graz against rights, said the 80-year old Alfred Gerstl the magazine. Gerstl, once for the conservative ones in Austria actively, knows Schwarzenegger according to own data from the time, when this was a friend of his son Karl.
October 3rd, 2003 at 1:36 pm
Good God. First the man is against food; now he’s against rights, too. Where will it end?
October 3rd, 2003 at 1:43 pm
I would say this definitely shows Arnold is against the First Amendment…
October 3rd, 2003 at 4:26 pm
I don’t know about Austria, but in Germany pro-Nazi speech is specifically outlawed.
First Amendment? Was ist das?
October 3rd, 2003 at 6:22 pm
The Letter of the Day Was M
Mildly Moratory, I Meander M-wards to Match the Masterful Maunderings of the Mistress of VenoM. M is for Moron, which he certainly is, and also for Masochistic, which US drug laws are. M is for Maria as she Maintains her…
October 3rd, 2003 at 6:46 pm
I frankly think most of this will redound positively on Arnold.
October 4th, 2003 at 8:57 pm
Time to check up on what’s going on in XRLQ’s neck of the woods
Wow, all I had to do is click here and href=”http://xrlq.com/MT-archives/001259.php”>here and be amazed at the slander that’s being directed towards Arnold….