Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

"Gene" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> DougL <lampert.doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Much like the 'All Frenchmen in 1945 had been members of the
> > resistance since 1941' phenomena I'm sure that 'All Austrians
> opposed
> > the Anschluss, including especially any named Kurt Waldheim
> who really
> > had nothing to do with it at all'.


And "all Brits in 1945 remebered how appalled they had been by Munich in
'38", and "the vast majority of Americans in Nov 1963 remembered voting
for
Kennedy two years before, and an almost equal majority, in August 1974,
remembered having voted for McGovern in '72". Memory is a funny bthing.


>
> And Beethoven was an Austrian, whereas Hitler was German.
>


Not totally crazy.

Beethoven was a Rhinelander, most of whom would certainly have opted for
Austrian rule over Prussian in 1815 if given the choice, and probably
wouldn't have been too sorry had they become Habsburg subjects after an
alt-1866.

Hitler, OTOH, behaved like a German jingoist who just happened to have
_lived_ in Austria for a time. At age 25, he joined the German Army, not
the
Austrian, in 1914, and thereafter his entire career was made in the Reich.
Iirc, his only subsequent visit to Austria was in March 1938. He was a
"converted" German, and like many converts, was more fanatical about it
than
most of those who were simply born that way.


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