At 12:58 PM 12/9/97 +0100, you wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Rick Heli wrote:
Liest sich sehr gut. Steckt viel Arbeit drin, danke.
thanks
2 minor points: a) Political Divisions Hungary Rest is Austria part of the "rest" ? (Apparently it is, but would have Austrians at their time seen it the same?)
That's right -- there really wasn't any name for the everything else. No concept of a separate Austria yet although a Lower Austria and Upper Austria did exist. If anything, the inhabitants would probably have defined Austria as the whole thing. One could make the argument for listing Croatia and its subcomponents separately as they did have a diet and a slight amount of autonomy, but on the other hand it was nowhere near that enjoyed by Hungary. It was certainly not the Austro-Hungarian-Croatian Empire.
b) a question from a non-native speaker. Is "to annex" the same as our "annektieren" i.e. to take over forcefully (and perhaps illegally) If so another wording for
Actually the forcefully and illegally part of "annex" are completely missing from the definition, at least in my dictionary which has 1. to attach as a quality, consequence or condition 2. (archaic) to join together materially: unite 3. subjoin, append 4. to incorporate (a country or other territory) within the domain of a state 5. to obtain or take for oneself To me "annex" seems preferable to conquer, grab, steal, rob, rape ... In English, Frederick the Great's move is sometimes called The Rape of Silesia I believe.
... German-Austria, which had been first proclaimed in October 30, 1918. It was thought that it would be annexed to Germany, but this was forbidden by the Western Powers.
might be more appropriate. As far as I remember German-Austria wanted to join the Weimarer Republik. The W.R. had no power to annex (in its negative sense) anything.
I just saw that this was the same in the existing Austria page. Perhaps I should look at our new pages more regularly ;-)
I have changed this to "joined with" in both cases so that no one will mis-interpret. Thanks. Rick
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