In Australien schwingt man offenbar gerne die Nazi-Keule. Auf meinen Kommentar zur steigenden Popularität von Bundeswirtschaftsminister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, den ich vor ein paar Tagen für den Sydney Morning Herald geschrieben hatte, fiel einem betroffenen Leserbriefschreiber nämlich nichts Besseres ein, als Guttenberg sofort in die Nähe Hitlers zu rücken:
Beef with the baron
I hope I am not alone in finding Oliver Hartwich’s article rather chilling (’‘Say it like you mean it, we love a bold leader’‘, August 7). Baron Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, Germany’s new Minister of Economics with a rather comic opera name, is commended by Hartwich as a true ideologue who always speaks his mind, and is tipped as a possible future chancellor.
The last German chancellor to emerge from Bavarian politics who was also a ‘‘true ideologue’’ and who without question always said what he thought had a much simpler name: Hitler. He also emerged at a time of deep economic woes.
I prefer Angela Merkel, who it appears judges each issue on its merits. Rather boring, but then true ideologues tend to cause so much damage.
Chris Cuthbert Epping