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(2,208 posts)QUOTE me defending NAZI WAR CRIMES.
You can't, all you can do is try to insist the Austrians, as a nation, were victims and me pointing out how historians feel they were more like willing accomplices.
Good lord, have your standards fallen this low that you have to resort to this level of distorting what I have clearly stated over and over again?
Here read THIS:
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.
Less than a month after German troops marched into Austria, Hitler ordered that the invasion be ratified by plebiscite. The poll conducted on 10 April 1938 showed that 99.75 per cent of Austrians were in favour of the annexation. Subsequent claims that the results were doctored by the Nazis were later substantiated. But recent research suggests that the actual number in favour of Nazi rule was still about two thirds of the electorate.
Professor Gerhard Botz, a historian at Vienna University who has researched the period closely, said yesterday: "Hitler was welcomed into the country as a successful Austrian who was returning home from abroad and suddenly letting his own people take part in his successes. He was a sort of ersatz monarch."
Gershon Evan, an Austrian Jew whose parents were arrested and killed by the Nazis, recalled during a television broadcast yesterday how quickly racial persecution took hold in Vienna, a city in which every 10th citizen was then Jewish. "What happened in Germany over five years, happened in Vienna in five days," he said. "We had no idea that we would face such violence."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anschluss-and-austrias-guilty-conscience-795016.html
YOU owe me an apology, but I feel you are so lost trying to win an argument that you won't be able to admit you just went WAY over the line.
I am done with you.