Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fired one shot, not at Hitler who was nowhere near, but over the heads of some Storm Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi and works for Lord Rothermere who is always received by Hitler when in Berlin. A schoolmaster of Hitler's boyhood, now nearly 80, had come tottering...
...Linz had hurried from Vienna the Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart whom Hitler by ultimatum had forced in last week as Chancellor of Austria (see p. 19). This stooge came only to hand over his country to the German Dictator, did so by officially declaring: "From today the Austrian people consider null and void Paragraph 88 of the Treaty of St. Germain which proclaims Austria's independence...
...still President," came as an electric suggestion, and Chancellor Seyss-Inquart promptly announced: "President Miklas has laid down his functions at the request of the Federal Chancellor." Hitler at Linz decreed himself Chief of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and to the question "Does the Austrian Government exist or not?" a new official press spokesman (see p. 19) answered in Vienna: "I really don't know. I have just arrived by air from Berlin...
...times more Jews in German-Austria than there were in Germany when the Nazis took power. Says Hitler in Mein Kampf: "Vienna is full up with Jews." By the time the Führer reached the outskirts of Vienna, decrees had deprived of their profession the 70% of Austrian lawyers who are Jews, and the 55% of Austrian doctors who are Jews were next...
...Chamber, indulged in day after day of desultory bargaining with all parties. Juridical experts of the French Foreign Office contributed to Paris' somewhat fantastic calm by gravely declaring that juridically there was nothing wrong about the German Army's entering Austria at the "invitation" of the Austrian Government. This was, they said, no violation of international law and it was "not invasion"-an opinion which sounded like the Wilhelmstrasse but was actually that of the Quai d'Orsay...