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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Salzburg

2000-03-03

1935

In the 20's and early 30's, no Austrian would have thought to say that he was not German. This was different, we did not know what you are talking. And then in the Dollfußzeit one has the Austrian people .. invented. Yes, it was so that Schuschnigg, who was also a German nationalist somewhere, said: "We are the better Germans!" But in any event, the Austrian man who invented suddenly as a counterpart to the German people, and was just about a dancing and playing in Vienna, about .. and that was us as strange as possible, which was not the Tyrol and Vorarlberg connected .. So, we found a particularly ridiculous nationalism that was there reared. But, just for us this regime has cemented Austria. That we wanted to overcome. Behind this protective regime was Mussolini. We have, of course, hated the oppressors of South Tyrol, .. South Tyrol has played for me from childhood on a roll. .. My mother was born in Klausen, a good part of my ancestors come from South Tyrol, so I was of minimal connected with South Tyrol and South Tyrol for me was always the better part of the country and the most important. And so the South Tyrol question for me is gone like a thread through my whole life.