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The Austrian Success Story |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Norman Berdichevsky |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,347 Words, 8,854 Characters |
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When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was shattered as a result of World War I and the Versailles Peace Treaty, most observers believed that the tiny new Austrian Republic could hardly survive. With the establishment of Austrian independence in 1919, it was often referred to as "the state nobody wants" and expressly forbidden by treaty to unite with Germany.
Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, was a "stranger" in Germany. Like Napoleon, who was born in Corsica and regarded as a rough "foreigner," Hitler had to prove himself as a pan-German nationalist. On the very first page of Mein Kampf he proclaimed the necessity of union (Anschluss) between Germany and Austria, and immediately before and after his election as Chancellor in 1933, listed the annexation of the land of his birth as ...
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...roused some resentment. What the Austrian model shows is that "small" is not necessarily bad. The human factors that make a country strong and its citizens patriotic and willing to work hard in a common sense of unity favor progress. The country has benefited both from being ethnically homogeneous and proud of the reassertion of its national identity, Catholic traditions and historical heritage.
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