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Ninety years ago is happening again, almost word for word in places, this time as farce. (hexbear.net)

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[-] MarxusMaximus@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hitler was German. Austria-Hungary was a multinational empire under German and Hungarian rulers at the time Hitler was born but there was never a separate Austrian ethnicity or anything like that. After WW1 Austria was simply another German state and that's what drove the idea of the anschluss.

I didn't refresh my page so I didn't notice SoyViking wrote a longer and better version of my comment haha