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LOLBaltSS307 karma

The two great achievements of Austria was to convince the world that Hitler was German, and that Beethoven was Viennese.

LOLBaltSS175 karma

To extrapolate further for those wanting to know, what Nazi Germany considered "being Jewish" basically came down to the Nuremberg laws. Even if someone themselves didn't practice, they could still be discriminated against for other reasons. This Wiki article goes into pretty good detail on the classifications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling

LOLBaltSS171 karma

I know quite a number of UAL employees/contractors and it takes them forever to change anything. They're still technically in the process of cutting over to Continential's systems and procedures. Outside of changing flight routes to keep up with the Joneses (American, Delta or Southwest), they don't really move all that swiftly.

Besides, they and most of the other mainline carriers are heavily invested in the hub and spoke system and changing that would require a complete overhaul in the way they operate.

LOLBaltSS71 karma

You'll appear as having missed your departure on your origin and it invalidates the rest of the trip unless you have a customer service agent override it. Say your plane to second leg was significantly delayed due to maintenance and you just decided to rent a car and drive to the next airport instead and told the agent and had him exception it. I've heard of it happening a few times when someone would just decide to go from PIT to IAD or EWR via car to make their flight out to another area.

LOLBaltSS8 karma

A lot of people forget that Jews were not the only group targeted. The Nazis certainly targeted a large number of LGBT persons and other groups in the Holocaust as well. In the current right wing rhetoric, their main focus is on the trans community since it causes their base to foam at the mouth; but they're still blatantly dog whistling anti-Semitism with regularity every time they name drop Soros. Reactionary ideology always requires an "other" and as they suppress/eliminate one group, they move onto the next and eventually shrink who belongs to the "in group". Guys like Strasser and Röhm thought they were in the in group until they weren't.