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...Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from...
...correspondents are prone to make too much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young Adolf...