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.
Mark
And the other irony is that Stalin wasn’t Russian, he was Georgian.
This is what happens when you allow foreign-born people to be your leader.
Austria’s Greatest Achievement - Convincing the world that Beethoven was Austrian, and Hitler was German.
“Hitler’s rise to power was an amazing time in history, a perfect storm as it were. But he was still an Austrian.”
I seem to recall Hitler became an official German citizen about the time he became Chancellor. I might be wrong, but it seems I read this in “The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich”.