r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 22h ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Mocked for Embarrassing WWII History Mistake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-mocked-for-embarrassing-wwii-history-mistake/
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u/Mr_Bleidd 20h ago

Austrian*

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u/-AdonaitheBestower- 19h ago

Austrians were Germans back then by ethnicity and language

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u/Mr_Bleidd 18h ago

„The Anschluss (German: [ˈʔanʃlʊs] ⓘ, or Anschluß,[1][a] lit. 'joining' or 'connection'), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (pronunciationⓘ, English: Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.[2]“

In January 1933, Adolf Hitler (born in Austria) rose to power in Germany. From then on, desire for unification could be identified with the Nazi regime, for whom it was an integral part of the Nazi "Heim ins Reich" ("back home to the realm")

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u/-AdonaitheBestower- 18h ago

Yea I know. German ethnicity and "the German Reich" as a state are two separate things