Three out of five Austrians want a “strong man” to lead the country, according to a new survey.

And two out of five think things were not all bad under Adolf Hitler. Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary next week of Austria’s annexation by Third Reich, the Market Institut poll for newspaper Der Standard found 61 percent of respondents, mostly the elderly, liked the idea of a strong man as leader. That was a higher total than in previous polls. One in 2008 found just one-fifth of Austrians could imagine having “a strong leader who does not have to worry about a parliament or elections.”

Many Austrians wanted a union — or Anschluss — with Germany in 1938, but several maintained for decades afterward that their country was Hitler’s first victim despite the cheering crowds that greeted the Nazi leader at the time.

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