“I am a witness to history.
“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria
by tanks and guns; it would distort history.
If you remember the plot of the Sound of
...Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the
Nazis. Kitty wasn't so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native Austria.
She was 10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching.
“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent
of the vote,” she recalls.
She wasn't old enough to vote in 1938 –
approaching her 11th birthday. But she remembers.
“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in
with his tanks and took Austria by force.”
No so. Hitler is welcomed to Austria
“In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression.
Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation
and 25 percent bank loan interest rates."
Farmers and business people were declaring
bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food.
Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs.
“My mother was a Christian woman and
believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup
and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.’
“We looked to our neighbor on the north,
Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “We had been
told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard
of living.
“Nothing was ever said about persecution of
any group – Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in
Germany was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised
that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the
family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would
get their farms back.
“Ninety-eight percent of the population
voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.
“We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty, “and
for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new
government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.
“After the election, German officials were
appointed, and, like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four
weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work
was created through the Public Work Service.
“Hitler decided we should have equal rights
for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not
work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he
couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated
that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up
for marriage.
“Then we lost religious education for kids.
“Our education was nationalized. I attended
a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we
had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I
walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture
hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and
told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang
‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education.
“Sunday became National Youth Day with
compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in
curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a
stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the
equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.”
And then things got worse.
“The first two hours consisted of political
indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved
it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free.
“We would go home and gleefully tell our
parents about the wonderful time we had.
“My mother was very unhappy,” remembers
Kitty. “When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me
in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when
I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly
any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination.
“I hated it at first but felt I could
tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back
to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing.
“Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to
me. They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for
having a baby for Hitler.
“It seemed strange to me that our society
changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother
did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
“In 1939, the war started, and a food bank
was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food
stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you
didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and, if you didn't have a card, you
starved to death.
“Women who stayed home to raise their
families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more
suited for men.
“Soon after this, the draft was
implemented.
“It was compulsory for young people, male
and female, to give one year to the labor corps,” remembers Kitty. “During the
day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their
barracks for military training just like the boys.
“They were trained to be anti-aircraft
gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were
not discharged but were used in the front lines.
“When I go back to Austria to visit my
family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they
just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.
“Three months before I turned 18, I was
severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was
spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
“When the mothers had to go out into the
work force, the government immediately established child care centers.
“You could take your children ages four
weeks old to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, seven days a
week, under the total care of the government.
“The state raised a whole generation of
children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just
people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about
equal rights. We knew we had been had.
“Before Hitler, we had very good medical
care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna..
“After Hitler, health care was socialized,
free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was,
since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything.
“When the good doctor arrived at his office
at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals
were full.
“If you needed elective surgery, you had to
wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was
poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally
stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
“As for healthcare, our tax rates went up
to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from
the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families.
“All day care and education were free. High
schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized.
Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and
housing.
“We had another agency designed to monitor
business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables.
“Government officials told him he had to
replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the
corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was
just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands.
“Soon, he went out of business. If the
government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could
be in control.
“We had consumer protection, too
“We were told how to shop and what to buy.
Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially
designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the livestock,
and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
“In 1944, I was a student teacher in a
small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes
which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated.
“So people intermarried and offspring were
sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded
adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work.
“I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He
was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent
and others getting into a van.
“I asked my superior where they were going.
She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a
trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a
little clause that they could not visit for 6 months.
“They were told visits would interfere with
the program and might cause homesickness.
“As time passed, letters started to dribble
back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not
fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent
physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
“Next came gun registration. People were
getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we
still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law-abiding
and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not
long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their
guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply
voluntarily.
“No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said
something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were
arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
“Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it
took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had
it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath.
Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles.
The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little
eroded our freedom.”
“This is my eyewitness account.
“It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the
Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
“America is truly is the greatest country
in the world. “Don’t let freedom slip away.
“After America, there is no place to go.”
Kitty Werthmann
It’s
time to open your eyes to what is happening in America today!
That ends the article that I copied and pasted into this blog. Now for a few additional comments from me.
Slowly, our individual rights are slipping away. Presidents past and present have signed one executive order after another, slowly diluting our constitutional rights to the point where those rights are now open for reinterpretation by those who would destroy the very words that this country was founded upon.
We
need to learn from the past before it's too late.
The past: Hitler promised to fix everything. “We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls.
The present: Obama promises to fix everything. November 2008 - Headline: "Obama wins election in landslide to become first black president."
The past: “No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
Excerpt: “Brandon
Raub was arrested with no warning, targeted for doing nothing more than
speaking out against the government, detained against his will, and isolated
from his family, friends and attorneys. These are the kinds of things that take
place in totalitarian societies.”
The past: “We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control."
The past: "Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing."
The past: “During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps."
Excerpt: "Gestapo
Scouts will be required to combat 'rightwing extremists' who will refuse to
turn in their firearms after the next false flag terror attack or engineered
pandemic. SWAT Scouts will be called to deal with those who refuse to
participate in mandatory vaccinations. Police state Scouts will be the vanguard
for Obama’s million-man Civilian National Security Corps. 'just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well-funded' as the military."
The past: “Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law-abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
Excerpt: “With emotions running high in the aftermath of the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, politicians on the State and Federal level have begun introducing legislative actions to curtail access to firearms protected by the Second Amendment. In Missouri, parents may soon be forced to register firearms with their child’s school under threat of criminal penalties. In Massachusetts, another proposal would require storage of semi-automatic rifles at government approved storage depots. And, in the State of New York, congressional representatives have already passed legislation that requires registration of every semi-automatic rifle and reduces maximum magazine capacity to 7 rounds of ammunition, and Governor Cuomo has floated the idea of gun confiscation.”
Goal: Get the population dependent on the
government while stripping them of their individual rights. The dependent populace will voluntarily give
up some of their rights for safety, "human rights," political
correctness, and for their basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, medical
attention, medication, etc...). By the
time the populace realizes how much of their individual rights they have lost,
it will be too late. The state will gain
control through marshal law and anyone who defies the state will be
neutralized.
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