Do a lot of people think Hitler was German?
Sifter22
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Obviously it barely ever comes up in conversation but I've heard people refer to him as "that evil German guy". Do you think if you ask people randomly on the spot they would assume he was German? I know it's not that important but he was a massive historical figure.
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And Napolean was Italian.
And Obama is a Kenyan.
I think they'd say "that guy who was almost as bad as Thatcher".
You're thinking of Phil who's actually Danish!
Where you are born doesn't really matter anyway. My eldest was born in Dubai. My youngest was born in the UK. Both are Australian.
It seems to be assumed by most people.
I remember him once being referred to in print as 'the German sausage-muncher'.
He was Austrian and vegetarian.
That's more like it.
That's why he didn't stand for political office in Germany HIMSELF before 1933 - he couldn't!
do many people think that Stalin was Russian
Who cares. He was fit.
Bet Arnie's pissed off about that person.
BTW - don't you mean Strauss?
Beethoven is definitely German.
Er...no; "Austria" after WWII was the German-SPEAKING parts of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had never been part of Germany it had been a separate nation and empire all of its own.
At that time it called itself "German Austria" because it wanted to join the Weimar Republic after the end of the war...but this was specifically forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.
Yes, but it was a comment about perception rather than reality.
He would describe animal slaughter at social gatherings, in an apparant attempt to turn others off meat.
He was also an antivivisectionist (publicly, at least) - which is a bit rich, when you consider some of the atrocities the Nazis perpetrated on prisoners.
Napolean was Corsican, yes of Italian descent but not Italian.