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Re:Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video ar... by jacquesm on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:33PM (#10549080)
It's related because you take exception to the term 'modern Austrian'. I take exception to the generalization to all but find it perfectly believable that a segment of modern day Austrians is still in convenient denial. From personal anecdote I can confirm it but I don't like to go down that route so I'd rather stick to the statistics about the right wing party representation in Austria and submit that amongst a group that large there must be some overlap with the group that still sees Austria as the victim of the Nazis. That's simple statistics and does not require exceptional leaps of faith.

Aside: Nationalist parties are pretty good at finding ways to gain a foothold using single-issue scapegoating games. What you get once they're in power is a totally different kettle of fish.

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Re:Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video ar... by the_mitsuhiko on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:17PM (#10549760)
> but find it perfectly believable that a segment of modern day Austrians is still in convenient denial.

Sure, but I did not dispute that. There are people with questionable ideologies in all countries. However if you look at the population as a whole the question is how large that percentage is (among people who were not actively involved in the war).

The reason why I object to the concept that Austria is particularly problematic in that regard (which is what international opinion appears to be) is because we can have a direct comparison to Germany. You can basically divide a German statistic by 10 and then compare it to Austria to see how the countries are doing. And with regards to most things with regards to national socialism we are doing significantly better than Germany these days.

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