Correction

While Germany redeems the Holocaust by arming Israel and hunting down nonagenarian camp functionaries, the Austrian government has taken an altogether more robust approach. Many families whose property was stolen by the Nazis have never had it returned, and a Jewish author who wrote an exposé has been imprisoned in the charmingly-named Simmering jail for the past four months. In a case that the former court reporter Thomas Bernhard might have treasured, Stephan Templ applied on his mother's behalf for the return of a property seized in 1938, and was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for fraudulently concealing the existence of an aunt whom he had in fact mentioned half a dozen times. The relevant documents have now surfaced, and Templ has been allowed to comment by telephone; which shows that, for all its sterling efforts, the Austrian justice system still cannot compare with the British one.