<<I consider calling my family "Nazi sympathizers" - several times - to be over the line.>>
As I remember the thread, you were the one who brought your family into the discussion in the first place, and I called it the way I saw it, based on:
1. Popularity of the Nazis in Austria
2. Lack of any resistance to the Nazis by the Austrians, particularly in view of their "occupation" by Germany "against their will"
3. Participation of many Austrians, from Adolf Hitler on down, in the Nazi movement (for a small - - 34 pages - - list of prominent Austrian Nazis, including some of the worst war criminals and concentration camp guards, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Austrian_Nazis)
4. Filmed documentation of public persecution of Jews in Vienna by large and enthusiastic crowds of Austrian citizens, including forcing the Jews to crawl on their hands and knees in public, eating the grass like animals and "cleaning" the sidewalks with toothbrushes
5. The bullshit charges that your father's elementary school was "bombed" in broad daylight by "British" aircraft -- typical Nazi defences of "victimization" and "suffering" to distract from their own crimes and atrocities
6. The general absence of any repercussions following from your family's alleged "anti-Nazi" sympathies.
7. The anti-Soviet and then anti-British commentary, followed by an unsupported general declaration of "anti-Nazi" sympathies only
after the Nazi-like nature of the family animosities was pointed out to you.
None of this adds up to proof positive. Life rarely gives us the opportunity to make such proof without the aid of a prosecutorial team of investigators, researchers, etc. But it's a common pattern, which I easily recognized and pointed out in response to your own initial use of your family's "evidence" in smearing our former Soviet allies.
I believe what I said was that the odds were overwhelming that your family - - whose anti-Soviet opinion you had provided as "evidence" of how "bad" the Russians really were (another hallmark, BTW, of Nazi propaganda) - - were in fact Nazi sympathizers, spouting the usual Nazi line about the "atrocities" of the Red Army. Note that I did not include YOU in the characterization. Still don't. But in the context of the discussion we were engaged in at the time, the comments were all legitimate. They didn't even come close to the line.