[Happy Rain]

Hitler was more German than most Germans—he voluntarily fought for the Kaiser and once in power his first act of aggression on foreign soil was the Anschluss.

Bavaria and Austria were twin mothers of Nazism.

[gorush]

I am re-reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, my first reading was forty years ago. Hitler’s rise to power was an amazing time in history, a perfect storm as it were. But he was still an Austrian. He spent his youth named Adolph Shicklegruber, his mother’s maiden name. His father brought about the change only when an inheritance made it profitable for him to do so.

[gorush]

The alliterative salute “Heil Hitler” may not have caught on as well as “Heil Shicklegruber”.