The line is, almost verbatim across multiple disparate sources: "Austria was the first victim of the Nazi's". Its so striking to hear it as a statement that it

The line is, almost verbatim across multiple disparate sources: "Austria was the first victim of the Nazi's". Its so striking to hear it as a statement that it has become very much expected whenever I make a new acquaintance and the topic of discussion gets around to Austrian culture. There is so much affinity for the cliché of it, that I think it still persists as a meme. Austrians seem to love their wry, ironic, cliché .. and to excuse the current madness with a brush of "oh, its normal for Austria to have such politics.."