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Originally Posted by E. Cartman
No, I spent a week in and around Salzburg. It was this building:
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Ok, that reduces my choice of possible pleas dramatically. (
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I'm not asserting the correctness of what the guy told us, by the way, and it's not like Hitler himself used it or anything. Probably, it was just a minor regional HQ or even just for the city. In fact, I believe mostly it held prisoners and probably an SS garrison. My point really was the guide's seeming pride in Austria's participation in the war.
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Hm, when considering Hitlers faible for fortresses I would say its quite likely that the fortress served for some Nazi purposes, it would not be surprising at all, if even for the SS as they were even more keen on medieval fortresses.
Anyway, its a sick idea to be proud of having been part of a state of crime and our own people be in the midth of the regime, and being in top level positions.
I just express my hope that those people are gone nowadays.
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Hohensalzburg is a rather cool fortress. I have read somewhere that its one of the largest fortresses of whole Europe, if not even the largest one. And when considering that its heading the center of a not that small town its hardly possible to top IMO. It never was conquered, was it?
I know that Graz Austrias third largest town also had a large fortress in its center on a hill. I was it seems so dangerous in military terms even in the 19th century that Napoleon demanded its destruction as part of a treaty that saved Austria from invasion and kept it souvereign.