- Headline
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Text of Hitler Speech at Linz
- Publication Date
- Sunday, March 13, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 8
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- VIENNA, March 12—(AP)—The complete text of Adolf Hitler's speech today at Linz, Upper Austria, follows:
"I thank all of you who are gathered here and who give your presence testimony it is not the wish of only to found this new PanGermany but it 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.
"When I once departed this city I had the same feeling and conviction that fills me today.
'Picture my feeling of emotion, after such long years of faith to see it (my faith) brought to fulfillment in rapid shouts of joy when fate called me from this city to be leader of the Reich.
"DIVINE COMMISSION"
"Then fate must have given me a commission and it can only have been a single commission to return my beloved Fatherland to the German Reich.
"I believed in this divine commission I lived and fought for it. I believe I now have fulfilled it. And you are witnesses to it.
"I do not know what day you will be called (apparently referring to a plebiscite such as Schuschnigg had called and then cancelled). I hope it is not far off.
"Then you'll have to stand by your conviction. I believe I can be proud of my Fatherland before the entire German people. It must prove to the entire world any other attempt to part this people will be in vain.
"ALL GERMANY PREPARED"
"Just as you then will be obliged to perform your duty for this German future, so is all Germany prepared to fulfill the obligation to you in seeing you liberated. And she begins to fulfill those obligations today.
"You will see it in the German soldiers who are marching in from all sections of the Reich. You will see in them, fighters who are ready and willing to sacrifice everything for the entire community of German people, for the power of our Reich, for its glory.
"Now and forever Germany. Sieg Heil. (Hail victory.)" - History Unfolded Contributor
- Steven B.
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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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