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After America, There is No Place to Go
Blog ^ | Kitty Werthmann

Posted on 02/12/2010 9:11:40 AM PST by Commander X

After America, There is No Place to Go

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World.

Don't Let Freedom Slip Away.

By: Kitty Werthmann What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% 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.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. 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 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, 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.

Hitler Targets Education Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:

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. 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. 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.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

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. 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.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 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.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

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% 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. 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 live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

Mercy Killing Redefined:

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.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

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 after-wards, 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.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

Its true those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World.

Don't Let Freedom Slip Away!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; deathofthewest; donttreadonme; elections; fascism; freedom; goverment; history; liberalfascism; liberalprogressivism; liberty
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1 posted on 02/12/2010 9:11:40 AM PST by Commander X
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To: Commander X

We had a relative (wife of a distant cousin, recently passed on) who was an Austrian girl during WWII. She didn’t much like to talk about those days but she said essentially the same thing - they thought of Hitler as a savior. He put them back to work and restored their sense of national self-worth. By the time they figured out what he was really about, it was too late.


2 posted on 02/12/2010 9:16:37 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: tgusa

Oh, and she told EXACTLY the same stories about the occupying Russians.


3 posted on 02/12/2010 9:18:57 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Later.


4 posted on 02/12/2010 9:20:06 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: tgusa

There are parallels to the fascists of today,
however, today’s fascists aren’t NATIONAL socialists,
they actually hate their own country.

They are INTERNATIONAL socialists.


5 posted on 02/12/2010 9:22:24 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Commander X

If alive, I wonder how Gen. Lee would respond to the statment: After America, There is No Place to Go.


6 posted on 02/12/2010 9:23:24 AM PST by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
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To: MrB

I have another descriptor for them which unfortunately can’t be used here.


7 posted on 02/12/2010 9:27:40 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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To: tgusa

Sowell pointed out the slightly amusing point that both the left and the right point at each other and yell “fascist”.

The left sees the right’s love of country as Hitlerian,
and the right sees the left’s love of authoritarianism as [truly] fascist.


8 posted on 02/12/2010 9:33:21 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Commander X

Thankfully, Barack Obama is way, way too much of a bumbler to effect “miraculous” change like what Hitler did. Everyone knows he is a flim flam now. The big “stimulus”? Pffffft.


9 posted on 02/12/2010 9:33:28 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Commander X
After America, there is no place to go.

Why do WE have to go anywhere ? It's OUR country. They are the ones who have to leave. They just don't know it yet. But they will soon.

10 posted on 02/12/2010 9:39:02 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Commander X
That 1938 plebiscite in Austria may not have been entirely free. For one thing, the Nazis had already occupied the country and were in the process of sweeping away all dissidents. In his book Not Peace But a Sword (Doubleday, 1939), Vincent Sheean, a left-leaning journalist wrote that uniformed Nazis would show up at polling places and tell voters who favored unification with Germany to give them their ballots--and they took note of anyone who refused to do so.
11 posted on 02/12/2010 10:14:21 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Commander X

This is a solemn warning. Do something now or it will be too late.

I recommend impeaching Obama and throwing the rest of them, as many as are up for re-election, out of office next November.


12 posted on 02/12/2010 12:59:30 PM PST by RoadTest (The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Ps. 119:130)
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To: Commander X

One big difference though - there are approximately 270 people in both houses of congress against about 320 million people. 100 million of us own guns. The military is largely composed of real Americans.

These people are too arrogant to learn from their mistakes.

Elections have consequences and treasonous decisions by elected officials have consequences too.

It’s best if we take care of this by use of the soap box (educating people) or the ballot box (voting for Americans instead of Democrats).

We should NOT need to resort to the cartridge box. There are enough true Americans to vote them out if awakened to the real dangers.

In WWII, My father fought in Europe, and my mother worked in a munitions factory making tracer bullets. While I miss them very much, I have to say I am glad they didn’t live to see what’s happening today.


13 posted on 02/13/2010 8:51:23 PM PST by OldTypeAmerican (Recession: Friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
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To: 240B; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Kitty Werthmann: I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates... We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living... We were led to believe that everyone 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, 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... Our education was nationalized... we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles, and had physical education... 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... Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps... 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.
Thanks Commander X.
14 posted on 02/14/2010 7:32:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: SunkenCiv; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; rmlew; ExTexasRedhead; Yaelle; All
We elected him by a landslide 98% of the vote.

That statement, to the best of my knowledge, is false. There was never a free election in Austria to anoint Hitler. The Nazis seized Austria militarily in 1938 with little trouble, having undermined the previous Austrian regime internally for years before sending the troops in. They arrested the Austrian chancellor and sent him to a concentration camp. There was some opposition to the Nazi takeover within Austria (aided by German emigrees) but it never manifested itself to the level where it could muster any military resistance.

Regrettably, the statement about the supposed election mars an otherwise credible article by Ms. Werthmann.

15 posted on 02/15/2010 10:46:56 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss

Austria was annexed to the German Third Reich on 12 March 1938. There had been several years of pressure from Germany and there were many supporters within Austria for the “Heim ins Reich”-movement, both Nazis and non-Nazis. Earlier, Nazi Germany had provided support for the Austrian National Socialist Party (Austrian Nazi Party) in its bid to seize power from Austria’s Austrofascist leadership. Fully devoted to remaining independent but under considerable pressure from both German and Austrian Nazis, the Chancellor of Austria, Kurt Schuschnigg, tried to hold a referendum to ask the Austrian people whether they wished to remain independent or merge into Germany. Although Schuschnigg expected Austria to vote in favour of maintaining autonomy, a well-planned coup d’etat by the Austrian Nazi Party of Austria’s state institutions in Vienna took place on 11 March, prior to the referendum which was cancelled. With power quickly transferred over to Germany, Wehrmacht troops entered Austria to enforce the Anschluss. The Nazis held a plebiscite — asking the people to ratify what had already been done — within the following month, where they claim to have received 99.73% of the vote.


16 posted on 02/15/2010 11:13:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: Commander X

I agree, this should be read and understood. Socialist changes are imminent in this country under this president. I’ve come to the point where I’m tired of the banter and argument about who’s right and who’s wrong; even whether or not the president was qualified to be president. I know it’s coming, unless it can be stopped. If it’s not, all I can tell the people that are blind to it, is “Just watch. Wait and watch, and pray.” I prefer I’d be wrong.


17 posted on 05/13/2010 8:04:46 AM PDT by JustWatch (Whether it's 100% accurate or not...)
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To: Commander X
The Socialists/Marxists here may try, but there are too many well-armed and prepared Patriots who will not go gently into that good night.

The Sleeping Giant has been re-awakened, and is getting informed and prepared.

18 posted on 05/13/2010 8:21:27 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Commander X
I would like to include The story of Kitty Werthmann in a new book that i’m writing. who can i get the permission from to do so?
19 posted on 06/20/2013 1:30:01 PM PDT by wronro94
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