Vatic Note: Nice find, Bruecke, THE "TIMING" couldn't be better. When I read this, I saw it was exactly the parallel we are experiencing here with the exact same players manipulating the economy. Watch and see if you can see it as you read her description of the events leading up to the take over of Austria.
Notice also how Hitler was used as the front guy for the bankers and it worked. Its easier to point to one man or one group that they decide should take the fall. Its happening to us right now. I keep saying, "forget blaming Obama or Bush, they are simply the front guys who have to do what they are told or they will be JFK'd and that means these decisions do not belong to them. Focus on the real perps behind the curtain.
Icelands actions to stop it in their country before it became like ours, is proving to have been the right course. And remember, the "PEOPLE" did it against their politicians. They, in mass, marched on the govnerment and forced them to resign and hired a new gov that prosecuted those bankers. Its time we did the same thing. The latest ploy is to create a "solution" to our foreign occupied government, by appointing the most Israel friendly men to "clean House" of Israeli sympathizers or actual citizens controlling our gov agencies that they care about.
So you think that will make a difference? Actually, it simply means they will pull those who are exposed and replace them with other neocon/neolibs. What will tell you if they are gone, is what happens: IF OBAMA/GOV DOES THE FOLLOWING, THEN WE CAN BELIEVE THEM AGAIN AND WILL FOREVER BE VIGILANT AS WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL ALONG. WE MUST NEVER STOP BEING VIGILANT.
*** TOP OF THE LIST IS WHEN THEY CUT $30 BILLION AID TO ISRAEL.
(OK, I did it. Just an oversight, and I appreciate you pointing it out to me. lol
1. IF WARS STOP, ALL OF THEM, NO WORLD WAR,
2. CLOSING BASES OVERSEAS, BRINGING OUR MEN HOME,
3. RESTORING OUR BILL OF RIGHTS,
4. DISMANTLING OF THE SPYING ON THE NET, PHONES, CELL PHONES, ETC,
5. RESCINDING ALL EO'S THAT GUTTED OUR BOR, LIKE ASSASSINATIONS WITHOUT A TRIAL OF AMERICANS. Prosecution of those who assassinated others in our government. They know who they are.
6. THEN SERIOUS TREATMENT OF THE ECONOMY,
7. ENFORCEMENT OF THE SEC LAWS,
8. PURGING ALL OF OUR REGULATORY AGENCIES OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST EMPLOYEES. NO EMPLOYEE HIRED IF THEY EVER WORKED FOR THE AGENCY BEING REGULATED.
9. BANKERS GOING TO JAIL FOR CRIMES COMMITTED, MARKET MANIPULATION, INSIDER TRADING, OTC DERIVATIVES WHICH ARE OUTSIDE OF SEC REGULATION.
10. ENFORCING THE SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT THAT IS SO VIOLATED RIGHT NOW THAT ALMOST ALL OUR HEADS OF FED RESERVE AND BROKERAGE HOUSES WOULD BE SITTING IN JAIL RIGHT NOW.
11. ENFORCING THE POSSE COMITATUS LAW.
12. RESTORATION OF OUR FAMILY FARMS, INCREASED STANDARDS FOR FOOD PROCESSING WITH NO DAMAGING CHEMICALS and Humane treatment of the animals.
13. STRIPPING MONSANTO OF ITS CORPORATE STATUS AND PROSECUTION FOR FELONY ASSAULT ON OUR BODIES,
14. PROSECUTION OF DRUG COMPANIES FOR ALL INJURIES AND DEATHS DUE TO THE DRUGS APPROVED BY THE FDA THAT DID NOT GET TESTED AS REQUIRED.... THAT INCLUDES PROSECUTION OF THE FDA EMPLOYEE THAT SIGNED OFF ON THOSE DRUGS.
15. SUSPENSION OF ALL VACCINATIONS UNTIL INDEPENDANT LABS CAN CONFIRM THE INGREDIENTS AND REAL IMPACT ON THE HUMAN BODY AT THE APPROP AGE.
16. REMOVAL OF FLUORIDE AND CHEMICALS AND HEAVY METALS FROM OUR WATER, FOOD, AND AIR.
17. DISMANTLING OF HAARP UNDER AN INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION COMMITTEE AND CONFIRMED BY A CITIZENS PANEL OF VOLUNTEERS WITH WEATHER AND ELM SCIENCE BACKGROUND TO MONITOR THE DISMANTLING.
18. CEASING ALL CHEMTRAIL DUMPINGS FROM ALL OVER THE PLANET. DESTRUCTION OF THE PATENTS AND CHEMTRAIL DUMPING MACHINES.
19. RELEASE OF ALL CAFR FUNDS INTO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT TO BE USED FOR BUDGETING FOR ALL GOVERNMENT SERVICES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.
20. CLOSURE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND TSA. ARREST OF THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES WHILE SERVING IN THEIR CAPACITY AS HLS EMPLOYEES.
21. PURGING OF ALL PORNOGRAPHY OFF PENTAGON COMPUTERS AND ANY OTHER AGENCIES FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
22. Taking all CORPORATE FOR PROFIT FILINGS STATUS AWAY FROM ANY TAX PAYER FUNDED AGENCIES. THEY WORK FOR US, OR THEY CAN QUIT, GET NO TAX PAYER FUNDS EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY CONTRACT AND MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN, BUT THEY CAN'T HAVE BOTH.
23. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, CONFISCATION OF ALL ASSETS OF ALL PERPS PROVEN TO BE INVOLVED IN A RICO CONSPIRACY WHICH IS MORE THAN WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN FAIRNESS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE ACCUSED OF DRUG RUNNING.
Well, you know the drill and what has eaten away at our republic, (AND THIS ABOVE ISN'T HALF OF IT) IF THEY DO AT LEAST 2/3RDS OF THESE RIGHT AWAY WITHIN A FEW MONTHS, THEN I WOULD SAY ITS WORTH WATCHING and give them a year. Many of these can be done right away. I also recommend that we reassure our reps, if they got set up for blackmail, tell us about it and we will forgive them THIS TIME AROUND.... if they testify against those that blackmailed them. Same with threats to their families if they did not go along.
If these 22 are not overturned IN TOTAL, then its just another scam and we will NOT BE ABLE TO TRUST OUR GOV UNTIL IT PROVES ITSELF ONCE AGAIN, and since our consciousness has risen so very high and so quickly, we will KNOW whether its a done deal or not. If its not, then we are on our own and must act accordingly by establishing our own government among ourselves and shift everything over to the new gov.
Taxes to them instead of to the bogus gov. Transfer all military, intel and law enforcement over to our new government. How will we know if they have infiltrated the new government??? Easy, if we get that far, I will share how to do it. Its how we spotted and identified those who were disinfo agents and plants, so I don't want to say right now so they can counter it. Also, take the money out of the system and the evil ones will be helpless.
She survived Hitler and wants to warn America
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/12/24/she-survived-hitler-and-wants-to-warn-america/
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.” Not so.
Hitler is welcomed to Austria
“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.’
Austrian girls welcome Hitler
Austrians saluting (VN: THIS PHOTO WAS IN THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE AND IS NOW MISSING FROM PAK ALERT ARTICLE, EITHER THEY WERE FORCED TO TAKE IT OUT OR THEY DID IT VOLUNTARILY AND THAT WILL TELL US WHETHER THEY ARE FOR REAL OR PART OF THE CABAL.)
Poster promoting “Hitler Youth”
A pro-Hitler rally
Young Austrians (VN: ANOTHER PHOTO TAKEN OUT BY PAK ALERT, SO WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? BOTH PHOTOS WERE REVEALING AS HECK, SO THAT MUST BE WHY IT WAS SCRUBBED. I am leaving the proof it was once there, in the article, so you can then go back to the link and see where they not only scrubbed it from here, but also at Pak Alert.)
(VN: Another one scratched from Pak site, as well as from here since we had all of these up. But when I think about it, I don't blame them, TRUTH HAS A SNEAKY WAY OF CHANGING HOW PEOPLE SEE THEIR WORLD AND FUTURE. JUST READ AND SEE HOW SIMILAR, THIS BLUEPRINT IS FOR US AND AUSTRIA BACK THEN. CENSORSHIP IS THE FIRST SIGN OF A TYRANNICAL TAKE OVER OF OUR GOVERNMENT, GUNS ARE NEXT. NEVER GIVE THEM UP. )
“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.
Austrian kids loyal to Hitler
Kitty Werthmann
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Notice also how Hitler was used as the front guy for the bankers and it worked. Its easier to point to one man or one group that they decide should take the fall. Its happening to us right now. I keep saying, "forget blaming Obama or Bush, they are simply the front guys who have to do what they are told or they will be JFK'd and that means these decisions do not belong to them. Focus on the real perps behind the curtain.
Icelands actions to stop it in their country before it became like ours, is proving to have been the right course. And remember, the "PEOPLE" did it against their politicians. They, in mass, marched on the govnerment and forced them to resign and hired a new gov that prosecuted those bankers. Its time we did the same thing. The latest ploy is to create a "solution" to our foreign occupied government, by appointing the most Israel friendly men to "clean House" of Israeli sympathizers or actual citizens controlling our gov agencies that they care about.
So you think that will make a difference? Actually, it simply means they will pull those who are exposed and replace them with other neocon/neolibs. What will tell you if they are gone, is what happens: IF OBAMA/GOV DOES THE FOLLOWING, THEN WE CAN BELIEVE THEM AGAIN AND WILL FOREVER BE VIGILANT AS WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL ALONG. WE MUST NEVER STOP BEING VIGILANT.
*** TOP OF THE LIST IS WHEN THEY CUT $30 BILLION AID TO ISRAEL.
(OK, I did it. Just an oversight, and I appreciate you pointing it out to me. lol
1. IF WARS STOP, ALL OF THEM, NO WORLD WAR,
2. CLOSING BASES OVERSEAS, BRINGING OUR MEN HOME,
3. RESTORING OUR BILL OF RIGHTS,
4. DISMANTLING OF THE SPYING ON THE NET, PHONES, CELL PHONES, ETC,
5. RESCINDING ALL EO'S THAT GUTTED OUR BOR, LIKE ASSASSINATIONS WITHOUT A TRIAL OF AMERICANS. Prosecution of those who assassinated others in our government. They know who they are.
6. THEN SERIOUS TREATMENT OF THE ECONOMY,
7. ENFORCEMENT OF THE SEC LAWS,
8. PURGING ALL OF OUR REGULATORY AGENCIES OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST EMPLOYEES. NO EMPLOYEE HIRED IF THEY EVER WORKED FOR THE AGENCY BEING REGULATED.
9. BANKERS GOING TO JAIL FOR CRIMES COMMITTED, MARKET MANIPULATION, INSIDER TRADING, OTC DERIVATIVES WHICH ARE OUTSIDE OF SEC REGULATION.
10. ENFORCING THE SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT THAT IS SO VIOLATED RIGHT NOW THAT ALMOST ALL OUR HEADS OF FED RESERVE AND BROKERAGE HOUSES WOULD BE SITTING IN JAIL RIGHT NOW.
11. ENFORCING THE POSSE COMITATUS LAW.
12. RESTORATION OF OUR FAMILY FARMS, INCREASED STANDARDS FOR FOOD PROCESSING WITH NO DAMAGING CHEMICALS and Humane treatment of the animals.
13. STRIPPING MONSANTO OF ITS CORPORATE STATUS AND PROSECUTION FOR FELONY ASSAULT ON OUR BODIES,
14. PROSECUTION OF DRUG COMPANIES FOR ALL INJURIES AND DEATHS DUE TO THE DRUGS APPROVED BY THE FDA THAT DID NOT GET TESTED AS REQUIRED.... THAT INCLUDES PROSECUTION OF THE FDA EMPLOYEE THAT SIGNED OFF ON THOSE DRUGS.
15. SUSPENSION OF ALL VACCINATIONS UNTIL INDEPENDANT LABS CAN CONFIRM THE INGREDIENTS AND REAL IMPACT ON THE HUMAN BODY AT THE APPROP AGE.
16. REMOVAL OF FLUORIDE AND CHEMICALS AND HEAVY METALS FROM OUR WATER, FOOD, AND AIR.
17. DISMANTLING OF HAARP UNDER AN INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION COMMITTEE AND CONFIRMED BY A CITIZENS PANEL OF VOLUNTEERS WITH WEATHER AND ELM SCIENCE BACKGROUND TO MONITOR THE DISMANTLING.
18. CEASING ALL CHEMTRAIL DUMPINGS FROM ALL OVER THE PLANET. DESTRUCTION OF THE PATENTS AND CHEMTRAIL DUMPING MACHINES.
19. RELEASE OF ALL CAFR FUNDS INTO THE GENERAL ACCOUNT TO BE USED FOR BUDGETING FOR ALL GOVERNMENT SERVICES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.
20. CLOSURE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND TSA. ARREST OF THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES WHILE SERVING IN THEIR CAPACITY AS HLS EMPLOYEES.
21. PURGING OF ALL PORNOGRAPHY OFF PENTAGON COMPUTERS AND ANY OTHER AGENCIES FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
22. Taking all CORPORATE FOR PROFIT FILINGS STATUS AWAY FROM ANY TAX PAYER FUNDED AGENCIES. THEY WORK FOR US, OR THEY CAN QUIT, GET NO TAX PAYER FUNDS EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY CONTRACT AND MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN, BUT THEY CAN'T HAVE BOTH.
23. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, CONFISCATION OF ALL ASSETS OF ALL PERPS PROVEN TO BE INVOLVED IN A RICO CONSPIRACY WHICH IS MORE THAN WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN FAIRNESS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE ACCUSED OF DRUG RUNNING.
Well, you know the drill and what has eaten away at our republic, (AND THIS ABOVE ISN'T HALF OF IT) IF THEY DO AT LEAST 2/3RDS OF THESE RIGHT AWAY WITHIN A FEW MONTHS, THEN I WOULD SAY ITS WORTH WATCHING and give them a year. Many of these can be done right away. I also recommend that we reassure our reps, if they got set up for blackmail, tell us about it and we will forgive them THIS TIME AROUND.... if they testify against those that blackmailed them. Same with threats to their families if they did not go along.
If these 22 are not overturned IN TOTAL, then its just another scam and we will NOT BE ABLE TO TRUST OUR GOV UNTIL IT PROVES ITSELF ONCE AGAIN, and since our consciousness has risen so very high and so quickly, we will KNOW whether its a done deal or not. If its not, then we are on our own and must act accordingly by establishing our own government among ourselves and shift everything over to the new gov.
Taxes to them instead of to the bogus gov. Transfer all military, intel and law enforcement over to our new government. How will we know if they have infiltrated the new government??? Easy, if we get that far, I will share how to do it. Its how we spotted and identified those who were disinfo agents and plants, so I don't want to say right now so they can counter it. Also, take the money out of the system and the evil ones will be helpless.
She survived Hitler and wants to warn America
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/12/24/she-survived-hitler-and-wants-to-warn-america/
By: Rob Kerby | blog.beliefnet
Date: 2012-12-24
Kitty Werthmann survived Hitler.
“What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or read in history books,” she likes to tell audiences.
“I am a witness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history."
Adolph Hitler
“We voted him in.”Adolph Hitler
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.
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.” Not 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. (VN: SOUND FAMILIAR? SAME ZIONIST BANKERS MANIPULATED THE ECONOMY TO CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR WHAT HAPPENED. In the protocols they talk about doing that and then putting in their own man to be the hero to solve the problem. Sounds like our 2008 election, doesn't it? And here we are in the same description of our economy as she describes and WW III now on the verge, just like back then. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF BECAUSE IT IS MANIPULATED BY THESE SAME CREATURES.) “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. (VN: Hitler was the grandson of the Vienna, Austria Rothschild, so that is why they were a target)
Austrian girls welcome Hitler
“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.
Austrians saluting (VN: THIS PHOTO WAS IN THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE AND IS NOW MISSING FROM PAK ALERT ARTICLE, EITHER THEY WERE FORCED TO TAKE IT OUT OR THEY DID IT VOLUNTARILY AND THAT WILL TELL US WHETHER THEY ARE FOR REAL OR PART OF THE CABAL.)
“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
Poster promoting “Hitler Youth”
“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.
A pro-Hitler rally
“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.
“Then food rationing began
“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.
Young Austrians (VN: ANOTHER PHOTO TAKEN OUT BY PAK ALERT, SO WHAT IS UP WITH THAT? BOTH PHOTOS WERE REVEALING AS HECK, SO THAT MUST BE WHY IT WAS SCRUBBED. I am leaving the proof it was once there, in the article, so you can then go back to the link and see where they not only scrubbed it from here, but also at Pak Alert.)
“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.
(VN: Another one scratched from Pak site, as well as from here since we had all of these up. But when I think about it, I don't blame them, TRUTH HAS A SNEAKY WAY OF CHANGING HOW PEOPLE SEE THEIR WORLD AND FUTURE. JUST READ AND SEE HOW SIMILAR, THIS BLUEPRINT IS FOR US AND AUSTRIA BACK THEN. CENSORSHIP IS THE FIRST SIGN OF A TYRANNICAL TAKE OVER OF OUR GOVERNMENT, GUNS ARE NEXT. NEVER GIVE THEM UP. )
“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
Austrian kids loyal to Hitler
“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, 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.
“Then they took our guns
“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.
Kitty Werthmann
“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 eye-witness 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.”
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