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To: fieldmarshaldj

On the contrary, Hitler was Austrian...

In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, learning of the conspiracy, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country’s independence but was instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet. On March 9, Schuschnigg called a national vote to resolve the question of Anschluss, or “annexation,” once and for all. Before the plebiscite could take place, however, Schuschnigg gave in to pressure from Hitler and resigned on March 11. In his resignation address, under coercion from the Nazis, he pleaded with Austrian forces not to resist a German “advance” into the country.

The next day, March 12, Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government, and on March 13 the Anschluss was proclaimed. Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II, when the Allied powers declared the Anschluss void and reestablished an independent Austria. Schuschnigg, who had been imprisoned soon after resigning, was released in 1945.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria


3 posted on 03/11/2018 12:33:38 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
People like Merkel have been a problem for Germany for some time. “Ariovistus did not come to an engagement, he discovered this to be the reason--that among the Germans it was the custom for their matrons to pronounce from lots and divination whether it were expedient that the battle should be engaged in or not; that they had said, "that it was not the will of heaven that the Germans should conquer, if they engaged in battle before the new moon.”

“Postremo quid esse levius aut turpius, quam auctore hoste de summis rebus capere consilium?”

Gauis Julius Ceasar

4 posted on 03/11/2018 1:39:07 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
OK, his adoptive country.
12 posted on 03/11/2018 4:57:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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