Even more likely is, second, that the beneficiaries and those on the payroll of Brussels will develop a kind of imperial identity similar to the bureaucrats of the Habsburg Monarchy. For Austrians it should be easy to slip into this kind of identity. Also likely, it seems to me, is, third, that people will take temporary and synthetic collective identities, as offered by commercial agencies and the world media. Without going into speculation, I suggest that especially those who favor the theory of Austrians as collaborators of Nazi Germany should take this into consideration. If anybody could make these figures speak, maybe we would learn that Austrians resisted the war to an extent nobody has yet imagined.
People can resist in many ways, also in withholding their full capacity in battle.
But maybe the Austrians just weren't seen by the Germans as tough and battle worthy like their Teutonic cousins. Inside the journal it is in the correct place. In Carinthia everybody knows that Haider is a native of Upper Austria. As is typical for post-Waldheim political discourse in Austria, he suggests the extreme right is behind it. In October 1997, after years of unsuccessful police investigations, a man was accidentally caught who, according to clear evidence, committed the crime and most likely alone.