Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Wien

2008-04-29

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1934

You have indeed, if one now looks at the political attitudes of different groups in Austria, you have to think that this state as it exists today in these boundaries, actually a remnant of the Republic. It has indeed this form of Austria in the Empire never existed. These were Crown lands, which were directly associated with the crown. But this form of modern Austria has not even given. With the collapse of the monarchy, are from any parts of the monarchy, people streaming back to Austria herein. This has been particularly strong in eastern Austria, the German-national element. Because in many areas of the monarchy in Bohemia and Moravia, but also in the Hungarian area, in the western part of Hungary, the German element has played a major role. And the conflict between Germans and the respective ethnic groups, so that a very large element of Deutschnationalem was present. Then one must not overlook that part of Lower Austria became part of Czechoslovakia, although one had the feeling that is actually deutschbesiedeltes area, therefore is also found in the north of Lower Austria a strong German national commitment. And this German-national commitment, of course, the people made vulnerable to the following thoughts. This was also in the Tyrol so, immediately after 1918, the idea: What actually happens now with this country? Breaks it apart? As developed in Vorarlberg, the idea of getting any merger with Baden-Wuerttemberg. In the Tyrol it has once given a vote, which was per connection to Germany, in the idea, because together with South Tyrol. .. So very confusing ideas that have been there. And the Austrian patriotic element has has really developed only after 1933/1934.