#One thing about early 20th-century Austrians & Germans: they will be doing race science
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How was Austria in the early 1920s more Hitlerite than Germany at the same time. They love to rewrite history as "the first country invaded by the Nazis" but the average non-Jewish non-socialist Austrian wanted the Anschluss so bad it made him look stupid (I'm listening to a book talk about Vienna in the immediate post-Habsburg period)
#They took so many legally insane measures just to make sure Jews--but especially EE Jews--couldn't get citizenship#They took Liberties with translation and in so doing redefined nationality as Rasse#One thing about early 20th-century Austrians & Germans: they will be doing race science
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