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Originally Posted by Agrippa
That I took Spain as an example is not just because of your identity Mynydd, but also because Spain might have been very lucky that something like that DIDN'T HAPPEN but COULD HAVE HAPPENED.
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But it did happen. Only that you apparently don't know it. Spanish Irredentism has in fact different slopes. One is that of the Basque, Navarran and Catalan territories and peoples occupied by France. The other is merely territorial, Gibraltar. And then there is the issue of Portugal, which is more complex as it has been separated from Spain since 711 AD, except for the period between 1583 to 1640.
However, comparisons are of no use here since the Spanish ethnogenesis has its peak moment in a well defined period of history, that starts in 573 AD through to 589 AD.
The bottom point here is not to question the belonging of Austria to a German nation, but how this nation is deconstructed under the post-romanticist tenets of German National Socialism (nS
), through the subracialist myth of the race.
Leave aside for a moment the fact that the division of the nation came as a consequence of Germans losing the war to which National Socialism had taken them into, which I'm not denying. What I'm arguing is a different matter altogether: National Socialism laid the foundations for the deconstruction of the German nation.
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