On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 05:09:00PM +0400, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > rather quickly. What little I saw or read of Austria in WWII presented > Austria as the first victim of Nazi expansionism, instead of the > Anschluss being welcomed by most Austrians.
Maybe Germany was the first victim of that unfortunate Austrian export http://www.thirdreichruins.com/austria.htm > Even young Austrians seem to be wary. We got into a free-ranging > discussion in a bar in Rust. When I started talking about WWII, our > Austrian companions quickly changed the topic. Maybe they just got tired of it. Also: caveat anecdote. I honest don't know, having never debated Austrians in a bar. > I'd say WWII and Nazism are very touchy topics there. But in Austria, > silence is a way to avoid digging up an unsavoury past. They haven't > confronted it like the Germans have. Or so it seemed to me. All the confrontation has been rather cosmetical, imo. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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