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If you take the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
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which had at least, depending on how you count it,
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twelve major national groups or nationalities,
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to get anywhere in the Army,
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and the Army was this kind of social promotion,
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to become an officer you had to know German;
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in order to become a bureaucrat or to become a teacher,
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in most parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
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you needed to know German.
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And so the argument has been about France, as well.
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The traditional view is that these the schoolteachers
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gradually, while they're sort of forcing the Virgin Mary