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85yr. old Austrian, Lived Under Hitler, Says We’re Screwed
E-mail circulated since at least December 2012 via clashdaily.com ^ | December 2012

Posted on 03/20/2013 3:08:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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.

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To: Yehuda

I have no idea what you are trolling about.


64 posted on 03/21/2013 9:51:32 AM PDT by ansel12 (" I would not be in the United States Senate if it wasnt for Sarah Palin " Cruz said.)
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To: Yehuda

You know how to make assumptions... and enemies...

I’m not a Christian.


66 posted on 03/21/2013 9:49:43 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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67 posted on 03/22/2013 3:37:29 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: carriage_hill
“I’m 63 and see it from a slightly longer perspective of time. The rate of fall is increasing dramatically, and the sudden stop at the bottom, is going to be fatal to the country.”

I am 80 and I find myself thinking of earlier times of my life and how the country was then as it developed into what it is now. That “normalcy bias” kicks in and I think surely nothing terrible will happen, all will be okay. Then, I change my mind and see us going into a permanent dark age - a breakdown of all we have known.

In the chaos theory, it's the butterfly wing flaps. One flap is nothing and the next one is nothing, but over time, the flaps add up and suddenly critical mass has been reached and the explosion happens. We have enough butterfly wing flaps that we are close to the last one flapping, then destruction.

69 posted on 03/22/2013 9:26:05 AM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Yehuda

Your Golden Calf is a Hollow Bronze Bull...

You aren’t fooling me.


70 posted on 03/22/2013 11:01:02 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Yehuda

Your Golden Calf is a hollow Bronze Bull...

I’m not a Christian.

You coming here to piss all over my Christian friends is another matter.


72 posted on 03/22/2013 4:12:01 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Yehuda

And may you have a wonderful Passover :)


75 posted on 03/24/2013 6:09:39 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Telling the truth about RINOS, PAULTARDS, Liberals and Muslims has become hate speech)
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To: fso301
"Hitler was born at Braunau. Braunau is in that part of Upper Austria which went Protestant at the Reformation. After that it was forcibly Catholicised by the forces of the Counter-Reformation, the Hapsburgs and the Jesuits. Since then there has been no religion in that part of the world."

Fascinating. That really does explain a lot.

Areas in NY state, and other parts of the rust-belt were consistently prowled by Rev. Charles Finey and other 19th C. equivelents to today's tele-evangelists.

Today they are known as the "burnt out" areas--where few religious people remain...

76 posted on 03/24/2013 6:56:48 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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To: NoLibZone

The article isn’t quite correct about the Austrians “electing” Hitler. The Austrian government agreed to the annexation and Hitler’s military moved in...to widespread approval, very true. But only weeks later AFTER the Nazis had full control was a plebecite election held...so people could of had all kinds of motivations to approve of Hitler, and I expect the Nazis would of had no qualms about rigging the vote either. 98% approved of the annexation, AFTER it was done...but they didn’t really “elect” dictator Hitler.

None-the-less it is true, that at first, Hitler’s Nazism was much more popular in Austria, than it ever was in Germany.

It’s also true there were more un-repentant Nazis—and antisemitism and neo-Nazis today—in Austria, than in Germany.

Cold war pressure—made us focus most all of the blame for WWII on Germany, not Austria, therefore historically since, there has been less national repentance and reform...


77 posted on 03/24/2013 7:06:09 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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To: Yehuda; Ezekiel; RaceBannon; firebrand; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

78 posted on 04/01/2013 2:53:52 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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