Heil, Haider?

National Review | March 6, 2000| | Copyright

The EU finds a whipping boy

AMAN named Joerg Haider is at the center of a storm reverberating throughout Europe, an artificial storm, but dangerous all the same. He is from Austria, a country that rarely rates headlines. But who is Haider, what is he?

An unsavory piece of work, to be sure. Born in 1950, the son of minor but enthusiastic Nazi officials, he grew up in the atmosphere peculiar to postwar Austria, in which people steadfastly avoided coming to terms with the country's recent devotion to Adolf Hitler, its favorite prewar son. In a tacit ...

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