Unfortunately too many Austrians were more than happy to join the Third Reich. Most of the most brutal members of the SS were Austrian.
> Unfortunately too many Austrians were more than happy to join the Third Reich. <
That’s true enough. But in defense of Austria, almost every nation in western and southern Europe had it’s own cadre of home-grown Nazis. Those folks just couldn’t wait to become associated with the Reich.
Austria often calls itself Hitler’s first victim. I think I’ll give them that. But perhaps there should be an asterisk after that claim.