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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...
Adolf Hitler, to everyone's surprise, was still at Linz, seemed in no hurry to enter Vienna. "Perhaps Der Führer is embarrassed by the fact that Miklas is 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...
Decrees, proclamations, orders followed by scores as Adolf Hitler finally left Linz at 10:45 a.m. Monday in a six-wheeled military automobile, making slowly for Vienna which Nazis hoped they had made safe by locking up hundreds, including the Duke of Windsor's Jewish ear specialist, Professor Heinrich Neumann and Vienna's Aryan Mayor Richard Schmitz. New laws on all sorts of subjects, including complicated economic regulations, were being promulgated by simply reading them over the radio. Frantic Viennese businessmen strained to catch each word. What had been the Austro-German frontier was swept away, thus abolishing...
...wheeled car of the Dictator, having covered the 100 miles from Linz in about six hours, halted on the outskirts of Vienna at 4:25 p.m. and Herr Hitler shook hands for several minutes with everyone who approached. In Germany he uses the greeting "Heil Hitler!" like everyone else, but, tactful to sensitive Viennese, Herr Hitler greeted them again and again with "Grüss Gott...