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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If America is for Americans only, does it mean that guy plans on going back to Europe?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Hitler was Austrian, not German, didn't look anything like the "Aryan superman" fantasy, and had some Jewish ancestry and that didn't even slow him down; why would modern nazis be any different?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TBF at that point in history most of the differences between Germans and Austrians were that they had been ruled by different dynasties inbred bastards. They spoke the same language as the Germans and many Austrians understood themselves to be part of the German people. Modern Austria was made from whatever was left of the Austro-Hungarian empire after all the non-germans had left and had no history of being a territorial entity.

In order not to make Germany benefit from losing the war they had to explicitly forbid what was then called "German Austria" from joining the German state in the Versailles treaty since unification with Germany was a popular wish at the time.

This pan-Germanic sentiment was also part of the reason why the Anschluss, the Nazi annexation of Austria, would meet so little resistance and so much popular support a few decades later.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah at that point the concept of "Germany" was still fairly new (rip to all the brave troops who fought valiantly and totally not in vain at Dybbøl Mølle. Someday Denmark will reach the Eider. Probably when both are under the ocean)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hitler was German. Austria-Hungary was a multinational empire under German and Hungarian rulers at the time Hitler was born but there was never a separate Austrian ethnicity or anything like that. After WW1 Austria was simply another German state and that's what drove the idea of the anschluss.

I didn't refresh my page so I didn't notice SoyViking wrote a longer and better version of my comment haha