Kneissl: It's no coincidence "that Hitler came from Austria"

VOL.AT - Vorarlberg Online Kneissl: It's no coincidence "that Hitler came from Austria" 2 hours • 1 minute reading time The former foreign minister Karin Kneissl (FPÖ) takes Austria to task in an interview with a pro-Russian YouTube channel. The ex-minister, who lives in Russia, explained her very own theory on the YouTube channel "Haus des Dichters" as to why, in her view, it was no coincidence that Adolf Hitler was an Austrian, as the "Kleine Zeitung" (online) reports. In the interview, the 59-year-old says that it is no coincidence "why Hitler came from Austria and why the main Gestapo leaders were from Austria". "It's this mixture of narrow-mindedness, envy and enormously high inferiority complexes," said Kneissl. While she says Austria has an inferiority complex, France - where she says she fled in 2022 because the hostility in Austria became too great for her - has a superiority complex. Very similar to Russia, by the way, says Kneissl. "Totalitarian thinking therefore has no place in Russian minds - but it certainly does in Central European minds," said the former foreign minister, who, as foreign minister, danced with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin at her wedding in Styria in 2018 and curtsied to him, drawing international criticism for doing so. In contrast to big Russia, there was almost a jealousy in the many small states of Europe, said Kneissl. (APA)