Posted on 04/17/2010 8:22:34 AM PDT by rae4palin
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote . . . I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates . . .
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily.
The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.
We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group - Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria.
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Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.
Compulsory attendance, under penalties. Indoctrination followed by fun. It can't happen here.....
Not sure about the suddenly part but sure about the dumbing down business has been in the works for years and now the democrats are reaping it’s crop (dumb people) who vote for him and his ways.
This can only refer to Schuschnigg's plan for a plebiscite in March 1938, which was never held. A law was drafted at Hitler's direction "providing for a total Anschluss." And "This draft Stuckart presented to the newly formed Austrian government on Sunday March 13, the day on which Schuschnigg's plebiscite was to be held. ... Hitler did not make his triumphal entry into Vienna, where he had lived so long as a tramp, until the afternoon of Monday, March 14."
ref. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Chapter 11
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Of course, what she forgets to mention is that Hitler was Austrian. Or the Waldheim elections in the 80s when they elected an SS as president no one would acknowledge as head of state during his presidency. Or when Austria was suspended from the European Community for their vote for the fascist Freedom Party which had nothing to do with freedom but everything to do with fascism.
Do not take notice, Americans. Austria is a small, insignificant country. All of you are better, much better than these scumbags.
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