The story of a horse

摘要

MODERN AUSTRIA turned 100 on November 12th and, as a present, gave itself a history museum. Its first exhibition includes a towering wooden horse that sports the brown cap of Hitler's Sturmab-teilung (sa). The Waldheim-Pferd, or Wald-heim Horse, was first seen at demonstrations in 1986, when Kurt Waldheim ran for the country's presidency, playing down his role in the Wehrmacht during the second world war and claiming he had never joined any Nazi organisation. His opponents joked that only his horse had been a member of the SA.