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    9 months ago

    I was literally taught this in schools, " the first victim of Nazi Germany was Austria who was annexed against their will."

    It wasn’t until after highschool with me getting more into ww1/2 history that I found out that was total bullshit.

    “anschluss” was just a word nobody would explain to me from the Sound of Music. Watching that movie was somewhat different afterward too, since a lot of references went over my head as a kid.

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      9 months ago

      Mind me asking where that was? Highschool/Sound of Music makes me guess the US. And what decade roughly?

      If it was the US then I’m impressed how successful that myth was communicated outside of Austria. I always thought that was mostly our own delusion.