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Have you ever heard Hitlers side of the story? It seems that most have not.
Do you think he may have been upset about not getting in to art school?
So you know that Hitler was Austrian. You know that he considered himself to be Germanic, as did many Austrians. Have you ever seen the images of Austrians lining the streets cheering Hitler in when the Nazi marched on Austria before WW2? He was welcomed as a conquering hero.
Austrians cheering the Nazi 'invasion' of Austria. ( google images )
So you may have heard that Hitler was "not German" but Austrian. This is quite a silly thing for someone to say. Hitler was Germanic and he like many Austrians and other people of Germanic blood wanted to form a Greater Germany. Germania was never conquered by the Romans and the Greater Germany that so many hoped for was pretty much the desire to establish a modern Germania for Germanic people. A Teutonic State.
Germania ( google images )
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The Anschluss was the beginning of Hitler's empire which became known as the Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Empire). It was also sometimes called Großdeutschland or Greater Germany. This was the first step in Hitler's boyhood dream of uniting all the ethnic Germans in Europe into one country.
History of the unification of Austria and Germany on March 12, 1938 (der Anschluss)
There were many ethnic groups in the old Austrian Empire which were agitating for their own independent countries before the start of World War I, including the Czechs who had never had their own country. Schönerer's dream of the unification of all the Volkdeutsch would have required the empire to be dissolved. This finally happened as a result of the Treaty of St. Germain that was signed by the Allies and Austria after Austria surrendered to the Allies in November 1918.
From the beginning, the Pan-Germans were racists, before the word racist was even in use, and they were rabid anti-Semites who wanted a German nation of only ethnic Germans as citizens with the Jews and Gypsies excluded. Their hatred of the Jews intensified when Eastern European Jewish refugees began arriving in Vienna after the Russians started expelling the Jews from their homeland following the assassination of Czar Nicholas I in 1881, which was blamed on the Jews. The Pan-Germans were also against the Catholic Church because it exerted a lot of control over Austria, a Catholic country
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It was another Austrian, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist in Vienna, who started the Zionist movement in 1896 when he wrote a book called "The Jewish State," which advocated the unification of all the Jews in their own country. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn (Photographs of Braunau am Inn - house where Adolf Hitler was born) in Austria in 1889 and by the time he entered elementary school, the Pan-German movement was in full swing in his native country. The Pan-Germans formed a political party in 1897, the same year that the World Jewish Congress met for the first time in Switzerland to make plans for a Jewish state
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The Pan-German political party had its own flag and its followers sang the German national anthem; Hitler and his elementary school friends were waving the flag of the Pan-Germans at the same time that the Zionists in Austria were waving their flag, which is now the blue and white flag of Israel. Austrians were singing the German national anthem while the Jews were singing their anthem called "Hope" which is now the national anthem of Israel. In 1935 when Hitler proclaimed the Nuremberg laws which denied German citizenship to the Jews, he nevertheless added a clause which said that the right of the Jews to fly their own flag would be protected.
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(Photographs of Braunau am Inn - house where Adolf Hitler was born)
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Do you think he may have been upset about not getting in to art school?
So you know that Hitler was Austrian. You know that he considered himself to be Germanic, as did many Austrians. Have you ever seen the images of Austrians lining the streets cheering Hitler in when the Nazi marched on Austria before WW2? He was welcomed as a conquering hero.
Austrians cheering the Nazi 'invasion' of Austria. ( google images )
So you may have heard that Hitler was "not German" but Austrian. This is quite a silly thing for someone to say. Hitler was Germanic and he like many Austrians and other people of Germanic blood wanted to form a Greater Germany. Germania was never conquered by the Romans and the Greater Germany that so many hoped for was pretty much the desire to establish a modern Germania for Germanic people. A Teutonic State.
Germania ( google images )
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The Anschluss was the beginning of Hitler's empire which became known as the Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Empire). It was also sometimes called Großdeutschland or Greater Germany. This was the first step in Hitler's boyhood dream of uniting all the ethnic Germans in Europe into one country.
History of the unification of Austria and Germany on March 12, 1938 (der Anschluss)
There were many ethnic groups in the old Austrian Empire which were agitating for their own independent countries before the start of World War I, including the Czechs who had never had their own country. Schönerer's dream of the unification of all the Volkdeutsch would have required the empire to be dissolved. This finally happened as a result of the Treaty of St. Germain that was signed by the Allies and Austria after Austria surrendered to the Allies in November 1918.
From the beginning, the Pan-Germans were racists, before the word racist was even in use, and they were rabid anti-Semites who wanted a German nation of only ethnic Germans as citizens with the Jews and Gypsies excluded. Their hatred of the Jews intensified when Eastern European Jewish refugees began arriving in Vienna after the Russians started expelling the Jews from their homeland following the assassination of Czar Nicholas I in 1881, which was blamed on the Jews. The Pan-Germans were also against the Catholic Church because it exerted a lot of control over Austria, a Catholic country
.
It was another Austrian, Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist in Vienna, who started the Zionist movement in 1896 when he wrote a book called "The Jewish State," which advocated the unification of all the Jews in their own country. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn (Photographs of Braunau am Inn - house where Adolf Hitler was born) in Austria in 1889 and by the time he entered elementary school, the Pan-German movement was in full swing in his native country. The Pan-Germans formed a political party in 1897, the same year that the World Jewish Congress met for the first time in Switzerland to make plans for a Jewish state
.
The Pan-German political party had its own flag and its followers sang the German national anthem; Hitler and his elementary school friends were waving the flag of the Pan-Germans at the same time that the Zionists in Austria were waving their flag, which is now the blue and white flag of Israel. Austrians were singing the German national anthem while the Jews were singing their anthem called "Hope" which is now the national anthem of Israel. In 1935 when Hitler proclaimed the Nuremberg laws which denied German citizenship to the Jews, he nevertheless added a clause which said that the right of the Jews to fly their own flag would be protected.
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(Photographs of Braunau am Inn - house where Adolf Hitler was born)
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