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I wrote:
"The child of Nazis [meaning Germans] should be apologetic, not try to rewrite history like they some how saved the world from Germany."

Your response:
"To tell Michael that he "as a child of Nazis" is being responsible for the holocaust is simply ridiculous."

Give me a break. Michael is trying to say that Austria gave Hitler his power because it's his place of birth and that the most loyal Nazis were Austrians. He continues to shift the blame away from the Germans and toward the Austrians.

You say I'm creating an "orgy of hate", yet I feel like I'm denying Michael the freedom of shifting the sins of the Germans onto the Austrians. No hate intended, but no love either.

Owl, AB, I fully agree with your posts, and so I don´t have to write my answer.

JR.com, you haven´t yet understood my posts on this thread, have you? I´m not denying that Hitler became German Chancellor and later President at the same time(= "Führer"), and that he was able to start the worst war in Europe´s history (I say Europe because actually WW2 started in the Pacifics 1936) because of that position.

But I slammed the comment "From the country that gave the world Hitler". Hitler was an Austrian, he was given to world by this country. So I intended to make this shi++y comment, which has no relation to the actual topic (see the title of the thread), looking foolish. Unfortunately, you don´t understand that. You fail to see that the homecountry is the country that gives the world a person. Einstein was given to the world by Germany, although he emigrated to the US later. Or would you deny that?

By the way, it was once a nice practise to address those who are mentioned in a post, too. You referred to me in your posts to AB and Owl, but I wasn´t addressed. Rethink your behaviour here.

Give me a break. Michael is trying to say that Austria gave Hitler his power because it's his place of birth and that the most loyal Nazis were Austrians. He continues to shift the blame away from the Germans and toward the Austrians.

Just to complete my answer:

Hitler was born, raised and "educated" in Austria. That means his teachers in Leonding/Fischlham laid the building blocks of the crazy ideology that has eaten his brain. If you have the time and the nerve you can read it detailed in "Mein Kampf", Hitlers notorious "bible".

His school in Fischlham/Austria

This is the hole were he was born in Braunau/Austria

Furthermore it is true that Hitler started his career as a "politician" after WWI in Munich/Germany after he served in the German Army as a "Gefreiter" private.

Personally I do not care if Hitler came from Germany, Austria or any other place since I am convinced that this phenomenon could happen anywhere if the premises are given. Therefore every one of us has to take care that this will never happen again.