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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1331313, member: 12789"]AH fancied himself a German, but in fact he was not even naturalized as a German citizen until like 1933 or something.  But that aside, the Austrians sing about edelweiß, and maybe the Germans and Swiss do to a lesser extent.  But the point is that the Nazis claimed a lot of culture, history, etc as their own when in fact it was NOT theirs.  I was thinking about that the other night, how incredulous it was in history that an industrious, educated, religious etc people were duped by a motley group of fools.  I recently read a book "A Woman in Berlin" by Marta Hillers that recounts how after the war ended people denounced the very fools that they voted into power a dozen years before and how they lead them to the penultimate destruction in 1945. It does make one ponder that such things can happen anywhere - not just Germany.[/QUOTE]