• Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      disproportionate amount of SS guys and those who worked in the death camps were Austrian.

      Here's a fun fact: Austria is the one European country that had caused two terrible world wars and got out of being blamed for causing them by blaming the Germans.

      What I'm saying is that we should start shitting on the Australians as much if not more than the germans

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I've always liked the :brace-cowboy: take that after WWII, Austria should just have been removed as a country and renamed to Israel, and turned into a homeland for the jews. It would have saved a fuckload of lives in the Middle East, and it would have been a fitting punishment for a country that caused two separate world wars.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Hitler got a welcome in Austria because the Nazis had just sent them artillery to shell their own communist insurgents, right? Is that something that happened?

      • Redcuban1959 [any]
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        2 years ago

        Hitler got a welcome in Austria because the Nazis had just sent them artillery to shell their own communist insurgents, right?

        After the civil war, the Austrofascists were the only remaining opposition to the Anschluss (Most of the socdem and communists were either killed/arrested). And they were never that much popular with the Austrian population, the only reason they remained in power was due to Italian support for their government.

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      because the austrofascists had already gone about murdering the communists and even social democrats, it was literally a fascist country so the question mostly came down to german fascist chauvinism vs. catholic fascist chauvinism