Read it again Harty, I said the Austrians started the war. 
It's tounge in cheek, though, thus the smilies. The Austrians were no more (or less) to blame than any other Euro power for that cluster. 
Same go's for the other two- in the 19th century Austro-Hungarian anti-semitics enjoyed a level of respectability denied other groups in europe but they were never in power. Eugenics was an offshoot of deep seated class predjudice and the perogative of the English speaking world for decades before the Nazi's took on it's flimsy, poorly thought out scientific arguments but again, the bureaucracy of Austria declared Germanic races superior to Slavic (with policies inflicting Germanic Landesublich or principal language on Slavic people) long before our HG started to plot sterilising the masses. And of course Governor Swarzenegger is much more than just a B-movie star. Hth. 
Posted: 23/02/2009 at 21:45
