Posted on 05/05/2012 7:00:09 PM PDT by iowamark
Austria - Still trying to convince the world that Beethoven was Austrian, and Hitler was German.
I heard that clever saying as the “...the two greatest 20th Century Austrian achievements.”
I think Einstein said something like....
“If I’m right, the Germans will proclaim me a German, and the French will proclaim me a citizen of the world. But if I am wrong, the French will say I’m a German, and the Germans will say I’m a Jew.”
“Apparently a lot of Austrians agreed.”
Like Germany, they had lost a lot after WWI (their monarchy, even more of their territory); the case could be made that they really did belong to a larger Germany (if that was their wish). They had at least as much in common as the Italian states that were forged together by force.
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