- Headline
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UNCLE RAY'S CORNER
- Sub-Headline
- "Poor Little Austria"
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 30, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 17
- Author/Byline
- Uncle Ray
- Article Text
- POOR little Austria!"
That is what many people said when Austria fell a victim to the Nazi party of Germany. Adolf Hitler, German dictator, was born in Austria, and for a long time he had wanted to obtain power over his native land. Early this month he saw his chance, and struck a quick blow.
Some newspapers reported that Hitler's deed meant the end of Austria's life as a nation, but we must be careful about such statements. Hitler will not live forever, and even before he dies he may lose much, if not all, of the power he has seized.
Austria's history goes back about 2,300 years. An early record tells of tribesmen known as Norici who entered and settles the region. Later they were attacked, and partly conquered, by the Romans. Still later Austria fell under the power of German tribes known as Ostro-goths, or East Goths.
The name "Austria" is a Latin form of "Oster-reich," which means "Kingdom of the East."
During the last 1,500 years Austria has had many other ups and downs. Before the World War Austria was a partner in the nation called Austria-Hungary.
After the World War Austria-Hungary was cut into parts. The part which kept the name of Austria has an area of only 32,369 square miles, but it was a friendly little country, a place tourists liked to visit.
While I was in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in 1930, I was please by the things I saw and the people I met. Scores of new, well-lighted apartment houses had been built. Splendid music was to be heard at public concerts. People smiled, and were kind to strangers.
An old Austrian custom has been to greet the spring with festivals. Men and women have worn quaint costumes at these festivals, and there has been singing and merry-making.
How will the Austrians feel during the springtime this year? - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jenna A.
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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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