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| Last German WWI Soldier Dies |
| 2008-05-27 |
| Germany's oldest man, Franz Künstler, died on Tuesday morning at the age of 107. Künstler died in Niederstetten in the German state of Baden-Württemberg from complications of a gastrointestinal operations and a broken femur, his family told German celebrity magazine Bunte. An ethnic German born July 24, 1900 in what is now Soost, Romania, Künstler fought for the the First World War for the Austrian army in Italy. He was the last known German WWI veteran. Künstler had lived in Niederstetten since 1946 and worked as a guide in a hunting museum at a local castle, Haltenbergstetten. There seems to be some argument about who was Germany's last WWI veteran. This is the second or third obit claiming that. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 Pol Pot? What the hell kinda name is that? Sudanese? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-27 22:45 |
| #4 Someone once said that to forget the past can be a blessing, for there have been horrors inflicted there that would unhinge the strongest of minds. Forgetting past horrors, only paves the way for the commission of fresh horrors. As we will soon see. |
| Posted by: Phomort Bourbon1944 2008-05-27 22:40 |
| #3 If we can't remember the past, how will we know when we're about to repeat it as farce? Seriously though, I have some memory formation issues, and can tell you from personal experience that while forgetting some details is sometimes ok, lost memories are losses of a bit of the self. The desirable thing is to maintain memory while losing the immediacy, the emotionality, of it, when the memories are very bad. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-27 22:10 |
| #2 Someone once said that to forget the past can be a blessing, for there have been horrors inflicted there that would unhinge the strongest of minds. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-05-27 20:35 |
| #1 I think one Great War veteran left in each of Britain, Canada and USA. The War to End All Wars will then slip from memory into history. |
| Posted by: Omusolet Black3899 2008-05-27 19:31 |