ad_on_is@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAustria’s far-right Freedom Party projected to win electionwww.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down11
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minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 days agoI’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian. Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply. I was right about the dangerous fellow though.
minus-squaresparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoMozart actually was Austrian :-), this joke is usually told with Beethoven, who was born German but spent most of his life in Vienna.
I’ve heard it said that Austria’s greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.
Edit: I’ve been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.
I was right about the dangerous fellow though.
Mozart actually was Austrian :-), this joke is usually told with Beethoven, who was born German but spent most of his life in Vienna.