Any Austrian with deportation fantasies should be kept out of Germany, just to be sure.
Why is it always Austrians?!
Austria is low key awful country that skates by on old reputation and sheltering world’s oligarchs.
Vienna’s a lovely city, a lot of Austrians are great people, yadayada.
I get the impression that, unlike Germany, it’s a country that hasn’t fully come to terms with its Nazi past. A lot of Austrians seem to be in denial about the Anschluss or how popular it was. Many will even argue that Austrians were victims, while ignoring that there was overwhelming popular support for the Anschluss at the time.
Here’s a relevant article:
This isn’t just Austria, obviously.
For example, my grandfather would often sarcastically remark that the Dutch resistance gained most of its members after 1944. To quote Adolf Eichmann on Dutch collaboration: “The transports run so smoothly that it is a pleasure to see.”
In Belgium, you have a similar issue where some Flemish nationalists (sometimes disingeniously) minimize the extent of their relatives collaboration during the war, as it’s politically incovenient and embarassing. Same thing in France with Vichy. Same thing in much of Europe, tbh.
That is unfortunately pretty true. The So-called Austria victim theory, which is basically “oh, we poor Austrians were Nazi Germanys first victim!”, is obvious bullshit.
This was only really officially stated to be definitely false in the late 1980s … and there’s still plenty of people who probably would believe it or at least like to pretend that that was the case.
But as I said: at the very least we got to the place where pretty much any official/political actor has to acknowledge that it’s wrong.
Austrians haven’t still come to terms with the fact that the main Nazi was an Austrian, I don’t really expect them to come to terms to Nazism in Austria as a whole
What? France is more than open about Vichy’s collaboration. I don’t know about Belgium and the Netherlands, but it seems you’re trying to dilute the responsability and lack of accountability of the Austrians
Let me guess, he also tried to become a painter but failed?
I think I’ve read this story before.
The irony of him trying to subvert the German constitution is that he loses all of his own constitutional protection.
