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To: Hawthorn

...Austrians get very unhappy if you call them Germans.

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:) I am currently researching my ancestors, and I remembered being told by my mother that my father’s maternal grandfather was born in Bavaria, around 1863, and that he bristled when called German. Actually, he referred to himself as Prussian.


88 posted on 03/01/2015 4:23:37 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Bigg Red

Austria - Still trying to convince the world that Beethoven was Austrian, and that Hitler was German.


90 posted on 03/01/2015 4:24:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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