Pic shows Seyss-Inquart, Hitler, Dr. Karl Brandt, Josef Bürckel and Julius SchaubHelly Angel wrote:more...
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Pic shows Seyss-Inquart, Hitler, Dr. Karl Brandt, Josef Bürckel and Julius SchaubHelly Angel wrote:more...
Is / was your father a Jewish-Austrian? Most Austrians back then did not have that feeling but welcomed the Greater German Reich.ReinhardH wrote:My father's impression as a teenager in 1938…
"How do you think I felt when I watched those Germans march into MY Austria"
Nazi propaganda. What should they show else as "everybody" is fascinated from the NSDAP?Helly Angel wrote:Images from a old german booklet called "Der Anschluss"...
Did yo ever read how many Austrians died during this time as consequence of their opposition? Sure not! So do your homework first and not judge about a nation knowing nearly nothing about it.Helly Angel wrote:ohh yes all the austrians were in the Resistence.... plisss.
He couldn't take it in 1934 because the government who was in control did not want Austria to give up it's land to Nazi Germany and the chances of another foreign country to go for Hitler, although the government in 1938 might not want to have the Anschluss take place the Austrian people certainly did, what do you think German Austria was all about in 1918?Sid Guttridge wrote:Hi Deutschesreich,
If most Austrians were in favour of the Greater German Reich, why, when Austrian Nazis attempted a coup and assassinated the Austrian Chancellor Dollfuß in July 1934, did the Austrian state have so little trouble in supressing them?
And why, if Hitler was so confident that most Austrians were in favour of the Greater German Reich, did he occupy the country in 1938 when the Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg proposed putting a referendum on the subject of continued Austrian independence to the Austrian electorate?
And why, even after he had occupied Austria, did Hitler rig his own referendum on the subject of Austria joining the Greater German Reich? If you don't believe this, look at the distorted ballot paper, or read Göring's brother's account of the far from secret voting process.
I think it pefectly possible that a majority of Austrians may have been in favour of a Greater German Reich at various times, but it is clear that Hitler was far from confident of this.
And if Hitler wasn't confident, how can we be?
Sid, so was the domestic referendum held at the end of 1933 IIRC; it asked "Do you believe that what Herr Hitler has done has been for the good of Germany?"Incidentally, the Sudetenland referendum paper was composed in exactly the same distorted manner.
See the last photo in this post: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 2#p1473582Sid Guttridge wrote: P.S. Incidentally, the ballot paper for the Saarland Plebiscite, which was composed by the League of Nations, is very different from the skewed ballot papers the Nazis prepared for the Austrian and Sudetenland plebiscites. Dieter Zinke posted an example elsewhere here on AHF.
I take it your father was either an Austrian Jew (or of Jewish ancestry) or a person who opposed Hitler and the Third Reich (National Socialism)?ReinhardH wrote:My father's impression as a teenager in 1938…
"How do you think I felt when I watched those Germans march into MY Austria"