Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because they are not German in blood"), and according to Jewish figures there are proportionately ten 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...
About 500,000 Viennese pack-jammed the streets, Imperial Schönbrunn Palace was a mass of swastika flags, and Hitler rode along standing at salute in his car, which never stopped, to the Imperial Hotel, from which all guests had been ejected. "Comrades, Der Führer is with us!" cried the official broadcaster and burst into loud sobs: "Comrades! I-am -un-able-to-continue-speaking- because-of-my-emotion...
...German Foreign Minister agreed to transmit most anxious British warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous...
...would be favorable to Berlin. By a supreme irony last week, Chancellor Schuschnigg had so succeeded in stirring up Austrian Christian backing for himself and resentment against the Nazi pagans that in Berlin, probably for the first time in Adolf Hitler's life, it entered the Führer's head that the plebiscite just possibly might not go pro-German...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...