We're all here to hear you say those pleasant morning words in your characteristic Austrian accent, "Heloooo." That's so much like walking through a garden. You said it best Luise, "it's gonna be alrite🎶." Has a nice sing-song flavour🙂.
Today i was searching,what resources my professor uses in her seminar. I found that she was using some resources of Vienna university literature department. I was total surprised and it reminded me you. And i was happy about that 😊
Your English is very, very good. When you said "to take my head off", it was clear what you meant. It's still funny, because it sounds like you could just screw your head off and on again (because the of things is missing).
Haha the Tüchi! I wear it all the time too. I have a bunch with Edelweiss on them from my mom XD We're just the perfect cliche to represent Austria here on booktube. I feel like we should make a video together where we really lean into it ;-)
Luise provides it: The Germans lost the war and Russia as the Sowjet-Union expanded it's borders across eastern Europe. Germans, who up to then lived in eastern Europe as a minority group, now were part of the nation who not only lost the war, but also was accused of many crimes against humanity. They therefore were treated as if they were all Nazis too, harassed, arrested etc. And... After the Second World War eastern Europe under the Sowjet-Union was a bad place for anyone remotely different or foreign. The KGB (secret service) etc. were basically enforcing just another totalitarian regime in all but name. Obviously people wanted to get out, since they were technically German they weren't welcomed with open arms anywhere really, and since most of Europe was riddled with destruction, no one had too much to give anyway.
I am no historian nor expert on that field so please keep that in mind and do correct me if I am wrong! From my research people partly fled because of fear from the nearing Soviet army since the German minorities were associated with the Nazis and therefore seen as the enemy (which was also an occuring perspective in Austria especially from the Austrian communist party but that shifted after the years). The big arranged evacuations after the war however were not merely decided by the people themselves but by the three Allies (US, UK and Soviet Union) at the Potsdam Conference. They discussed the new borders, postwar peace and order and in the course of this decided the repatriation of German minorities to Germany. That is an important part of this whole history I would argue. My grandpa told me they were told they had to leave but could return eventually so they only packed a few essentials. They never were able to move back though and had left most of their belongings behind. I hope this makes sense but I am sure there are different maybe better ways to explain it :)
@@luise_marianne For me the most interesting part of what you mentioned in your video was that Austrians were very hostile towards the Germans coming from the East - namely Poland and East Germany. I would be very interested to learn more about that. I still remember the joke regarding Austrian culpability in the Second World War: What was the best trick Austrians played on the rest of the world? They convinced the world that Mozart was Austrian and that Hitler was German. The same prosecution was happening with the German minority within the liberated Yugoslav territory of Vojvodina. Even though you had many Germans who did not collaborate with the occupying Nazi force, there were also many who did, in that context there was no effort made to make that distinction and as a consequence most of them were first held at concentration camps and later exiled, if not killed.
