Believe Quote by Billy Wilder

“The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.”

— Daniel Silva

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

— Adolf Hitler

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

— Peter Greenaway

After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly…

— Eric Kandel

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the…

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

— Leonard Slatkin

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical…

— Edward Grey

It took Austria a long time to be honest about its past.

— Sebastian Kurz

We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party,…

— Sebastian Kurz

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

— David Lloyd George

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

— Leon Askin

We Austrians know that in light of our own history, we have a special responsibility toward Israel and the Jewish people.

— Sebastian Kurz