I still cant believe that the Germans let that shit happen and didn't see it coming.
Its unreal.
By 1937 it was too late.
To people who judge the German people for not rising up against Hitler - how? Have you ever seen a group of people take down a well-armed secret police force and an enormous peoples' army? It doesn't work like that.
When they tried in 1944 the damage was done. The fact that they tried many times before that shows many Germans were against the Nazis from the beginning. They probably just didn't realize how far the regime would go with the war. They probably just assumed it would take Poland, maybe Western Ukraine, and the Czechs. Many German military people would have been OK with that, because of historical animosity between those countries and Germany and also the fact that they took some of Germany's land after WWI. But to go into Russia and against America was sheer insanity. There was no logic to that other than just to throw people into death and make the regime last a bit longer that way. And the Holocaust too was something VERY few Germany people knew about and probably very few would have supported it. That's why the regime kept it a secret.
They were hostages for 12 years. I don't have any negative feelings for them at all. And they have paid over $200 billion to Jewish groups and built huge monuments in Berlin in their memory. I think it's time to give it a rest.
As for the Austrians, they had no voice from the beginning, so as far as I'm concerned, they're innocent except for those that handled concentration camps or the secret police (like Kaltenbrunner).