Hitler was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Is that so difficult to understand?
You need to go back up and look at the context of this little "debate."
In post #99, our pal "Just mythoughts" responds to my factual statement that in 1941 the Germans invaded Russia. "Just mythoughts" responds:
"Hitler was an EVIL lunatic, but he was not German."
Of course he was born in Austria, but in what sense was he not a German who invaded Russia in 1941?
He was then the Fuhrer of ALL GERMANY, which then INCLUDED AUSTRIA.
Indeed, much of what Hitler said & did was all about improving the lot of Germans, in WHICHEVER country they happened to live -- just consider the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia.
If everyone then considered those people Germans, how could Hitler himself NOT be German?
And what sense does a "not German" argument make anyway?
That Germans invaded Russia in 1941 is a simple fact of history, regardless of where Hitler was born.
Do you disagree?