Word: ostmark
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...slim middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will...
Since Viennese Nazis sacked the archiepiscopal palace of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer last month, the Nazi Government of the Ostmark has systematically closed down Roman Catholic schools and seminaries, bundled monks out of their monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services...
...fortnight, Cardinal Innitzer's palace was sacked by an obviously stage-managed Nazi mob. Last week the Cardinal was, to Viennese Nazis, a "black dog," a "traitor," a "political priest." To the rest of the Catholic world he was a hero. All this was because he had advised Ostmark Catholics to proclaim their faith, and had spoken up for religious marriages, religious education of Catholic youth...
Although 90% of its people are Catholic, the Ostmark is not today a good Catholic land. Vienna's most famed characteristic has long been "Schlamperei" (slackness), and probably no more than 40% of Austrians are practicing Catholics. In Vienna last week, good Catholics worshiped timidly under the eyes of police, who also watched narrowly those who read their church bulletin boards, pasted with posters urging them to marry in the church. In his palace Cardinal Innitzer switched on his radio, listened to an open-air rally at which 100,000 Nazis shouted "Pfui Innitzer!" and "Hang the black...
...aware, however, that as concerns the Ostmark [late Austria], the circumstances are very different. If we make a start there, a frightful mess will be brought to the surface. But the actual time of making that start must be left to the leadership...