- Headline
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Hitler Engulfs Austria And Defies World
- Sub-Headline
- Pan-German Union Proclaimed As Linz Crowd Cheers Wildly
- Publication Date
- Sunday, March 13, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- Article Text
- VIENNA, March 12.—Adolf Hitler joined Austria and Germany tonight and defied the world to part them. He proclaimed this new Pan-German union from a Linz balcony to cheering thousands.
As Hitler spoke, Nazi forces, tanks and planes swept through tiny Austria to re-make the map of Europe and rouse new fears of European war.
Troops came by land and by air.
"Any other attempt to part this people will be in vain.'" the triumphant Fuehrer told wildly cheering throngs massed to welcome his return to his native land and fulfillment of the long-dreamed union of Germany and her southern neighbor.
'Declaring it his "divine" mission to return Austria to the German fatherland, Hitler told the crowd "your presence is testimony it is not the wish of only a few to found this Pan-Germany but is the will of the German people itself."
"It would be fine also if some of our well known international seekers after truth could not only see the truth here but also recognize it."
The new Nazi chancellor of Austria, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, greeted Hitler by proclaiming annulment of the Treaty of St. Germain which forbade union of Germany and Austria.
Hitler backed his dramatic union of the two German-speaking peoples with the Reich's military might might[sic] thrusting its gray ranks into every part of Austria and bringing German troops face to face with Italy at the Brenner pass.
Enters Vienna Sunday
The Fuehrer saved for tomorrow a triumphal entry into Vienna.
All Austria went Nazi.
Federal, provincial and munici-
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(Continued On Page Twelve.) - History Unfolded Contributor
- Katherine V.
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Bibliography
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Fuchs, Martin. Showdown in Vienna: The Death of Austria. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1939.
Low, Alfred. The Anschluss Movement, 1931-1938, and the Great Powers. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1985.
Wagner, Dieter. Anschluss: The Week Hitler Seized Vienna. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971.
Wimmer, Adi. Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
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