Own-Draw7016

The word deutsch had described a broad linguistic and cultural identity across Central Europe for centuries, long before any German nation-state existed. When Prussia unified the Kleindeutschland in 1871 and called it Deutschland, it effectively turned a shared cultural label into the name of a specific country that excluded millions of German speakers.

How did German-speaking Austrians and Swiss experience this? Did it feel like something was being taken from them, that a word describing all of them had been claimed by only some of them? Or was the distinction between being culturally deutsch and being a citizen of Deutschland understood and accepted relatively easily at the time?

Je me suis récemment rendu au Mont-Saint-Michel et j'ai trouvé étrange que des forces armées pénètrent également dans l'abbaye.

Je suis originaire d'Autriche et nous avons également connu des attentats terroristes, mais l'idée que des forces lourdement armées patrouillent à l'intérieur de nos sites touristiques les plus importants me semble inconcevable.