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(2,208 posts)Laughing at your new best friend isn't an ad hominem attack since I wasn't using it as a point in an argument. I am just amazed that you let his blatant behavior posting TO YOU slide by. Here, read this:
uhnope wrote:
"thank you for taking on a DUer defending Nazi war crimes comparable to Putin's takeover of Ukraine
Unbelievable that is going on here. Steve, how much more of that RW BS do you think we'll have to take?"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1542923
THIS is why I get to laugh at uhnope and his intellectual dishonesty.
Where's your outrage here, Steven? No one, especially not me, defended nazi war crimes.
I just insist that the AUSTRIANS actually be held accountable for their actions and not be treated as "the first victim" of Nazi aggression. The Austrians were WILLING accomplices with the Nazis. You know that, I know that, the world knows that.
For example:
Despite open displays of remorse about the Nazi era, the 70th anniversary of Austria's annexation has inevitably revived a long-running debate about whether its citizens were victims or willing accomplices of the Third Reich.
Public reluctance to confront the issue was underscored this week by Otto von Habsburg, the 95-year-old son of the country's last emperor. He told a meeting of the ruling conservative People's Party: "No state in Europe has a greater right than Austria to call itself a victim." He went on to dismiss an Allied wartime declaration that Austria shared responsibility for the Nazis as "hypocrisy and lies". The thousands who greeted Hitler were just like "high-spirited football fans", he insisted.
His remarks followed publication of an opinion poll on Tuesday which showed that almost two thirds of Austrians wanted an end to what was described as the "endless discussion" about the country's role during the Second World War. (The result of a similar poll conducted eight years ago was the same).
However, new evidence and a growing mass of research about Austria's role during the Third Reich suggests that the argument that the vast majority of its citizens were willing accomplices to Nazi rule has become incontrovertible.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anschluss-and-austrias-guilty-conscience-795016.html
So have fun hang in with your new bestie. lol