Do these idiots not understand that if it was Austrians along with Jews that Hitler hated on whim that they would have suffered the same consequence! Someone correct me if wrong but did not Austria cater to the Germans in WWII?
Mitch, you raise a good point. As an example, Hitler was terrified that his father may have been the illegitimate child of a wealthy Austrian Jew who had hired his grandmother as a maid. So, to hide that possibility he had the village where all of this may have occurred blasted off of the map - paying particular attention to the cemetery, synagogue and church where the evidence may exist.
Mitch, you raise a good point. As an example, Hitler was terrified that his father may have been the illegitimate child of a wealthy Austrian Jew who had hired his grandmother as a maid. So, to hide that possibility he had the village where all of this may have occurred blasted off of the map - paying particular attention to the cemetery, synagogue and church where the evidence may exist.
“Someone correct me if wrong but did not Austria cater to the Germans in WWII?”
They were incorporated into Germany in 1938. In the 1860s two German states (Austria & Prussia) battled for supremacy of the hundreds of smaller German entities, and Prussia won. While they led the new Germany formed in 1871, Austria looked south for an empire (Austria-Hungary, which collapsed after WWI). In 1938 the much smaller Austria joined Germany; as German troops crossed the border to make it so, there can be some questions about Austria’s complicity in it. The allies, who had said this couldn;t happen at the end of WWI, did nothing.
Austria annexed with Germany early on willingly. So yes, they were on the same side.