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My unconscious rewrites history, contd
Oct. 8th, 2021 04:29 pmAnother confabulation (cf. https://come-to-think.dreamwidth.org/38017.html): The other day I participated in the gossip session (always entertaining & informative) following the singing on the Mudcat Singaround on the Web. As often happens, the conversation turned to European history, and I made the following statement with great confidence.
Crazy governance of Austria following WWII. After the occupation, before the treaty reestablishing Austria, the country was not partitioned like Germany; the occupying powers took turns governing it, a week at a time. The absurdity of this arrangement contributed to the USSR's willingness to avoid a partition.
In a few hours, I began to have doubts, and looked it up. I evidently built up a fantasy from a tiny kernel of actual memory: The occupiers did take turns administering a small historic area of Vienna. The rest of the country was partitioned among them like Germany.
Crazy governance of Austria following WWII. After the occupation, before the treaty reestablishing Austria, the country was not partitioned like Germany; the occupying powers took turns governing it, a week at a time. The absurdity of this arrangement contributed to the USSR's willingness to avoid a partition.
In a few hours, I began to have doubts, and looked it up. I evidently built up a fantasy from a tiny kernel of actual memory: The occupiers did take turns administering a small historic area of Vienna. The rest of the country was partitioned among them like Germany.
