That foreboding German architectural style is distinctive, I once lived in a house of that flavour with a German lady who kept bees and pigeons. Over a feast of these same birds she waxed nostalgic in reminiscence of the glory days of Hitler, and needless to say I was taken aback by that novel perspective. I forget her name nowthough she was quite a character.
A disproportionately high number of brilliant Austrian Jews originated there in that epoch, Einstein being one of many in many fields such as Sigmund Freud the father of psychiatry, Wittgenstein, standard fare for philosophy students, music, theatre, science, culture and the arts magically flourished among them. I venture had you never drank of those waters, your apparent appreciation for the works of the Vienna School may never have flowered.