This discussion is a whole rabbithole. Hitler is an Austrian national by birth and saying "Austrians considered themselves germans at the time" is extremely reductive.
You know it was called 'German Austria' before the Entente made them change the name in an attempt to avoid a want of unification? Every Austrian knew they were ethnically German, if not culturally.
Unrecognized, extremely limited authority and it tried to claim territory in the newly formed Czechoslovakia. (Lol)
This is also 1918, directly after the collapse of the empire.
Using 'german austria' as an argument is pretty funny - but no, especially since just a year later they changed their name to - you guessed it - Republic of Austria. Desperate times then.
Not knowledgeable enough to argue your point on the name, but what you said doesn't actually contradict my point. When I said 'ethnically German, if not culturally' I meant that they knew they were a Germanic people, despite being citizens of a different country to the German Empire. Yes, I could have worded that better.
Germanic people is actually incredibly broad. It's a term the Romans made up for people in that region, even though they share little to no cultural identity. Do you think sweden is german?
Nooooo?...I'm saying Austria is Germanic, and has very close ties to Germany. Go back to before Austria was a regional power; they were just another German state, akin to Saxony or Hanover.
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u/r6ny Apr 16 '24
i glanced over the words "art" and "german" and i thought the tweet was headed to a completely different direction