&gt; “It’s pretty controversial. Austrians have for the most part perceived themselves as Hitler’s first victims, and as you can see through a lot of these films it was really not entirely that way. There was a lot of immediate sort of acceptance of the Nazi philosophy,” says Zarwell.<p>when i learned about WW2 in school in the 90s we weren&#x27;t <i>really</i> thaught that we were hitlers &quot;first victims&quot;. we did learn about the widespread vote manipulation and effective propaganda, but also that there were the pictured parades to welcome the &quot;occupiers&quot; and that big parts of the population openly welcomed him into the country.