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Skip to 3:10 to learn about how the Kids were suppose to rat out their parents to the Gestapo.
Turning the Kiddies into what they want.
Posted on 03/23/2013 9:21:19 AM PDT by urtax$@work
When the president of Ohio's state school board posted her opposition to gun control, she used a powerful symbol to make her point: a picture of Adolf Hitler. When a well-known conservative commentator decried efforts to restrict guns, he argued that if only Jews in Poland had been better armed, many more would have survived the Holocaust.
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Skip to 3:10 to learn about how the Kids were suppose to rat out their parents to the Gestapo.
Turning the Kiddies into what they want.
Kitty Werthmann is
85 years old.
America truly is
the Greatest Country in the World.
~ 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 livestock, 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
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.
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, pre-teen 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.
“It’s
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!
“After
America , There is No Place to Go.”
The
author of this article lives in South Dakota
and is very active in attempting to maintain our freedom.
I encourage everybody to read this article and pass it
along. I see so many parallels in this country; are we
going to sit by and watch it happen? Spread the word; also
contact your congressional reps; vote them out if they don’t do
what they should. If you don’t want to be bothered, then
you’re part of the problem! Google Kitty Werthmann and you
will see articles and videos.
To a democrat, history ends with the period at the end of every sentence and a new history begins with the first letter of the next.
As usual, the international socialists at the Associated Press are still pissed off at the national socialists, smearing the national socialists as “right-wing.” Those mean national socialists defeated the communists... something that really sticks in their craw. Orwell had this one pegged: “We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
I remember seeing Kitty Werthmann on Glenn Beck’s show a few years ago.
Austria truly was the heart of Hitler’s strength.
What is described in your post is exactly what Obama wants to bring about, only his style is a little different.
This link below is a very good read about Obama’s Fascism, and how history will judge Obama as a fascist:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Based on what? This is a spin article full of BS.
Yeah, they would have made them Nazis really mad and would have committed genocide even more!
Draws some pretty eerie parallels to current happenings, doesn’t it? The way the situation here in the US is going downhill fast, I wonder when things are going to really ugly. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and never give up the ability to defend yourself.
That's all I needed to read about this sanitized feel-good "Hitlers gun laws weren't all that bad" propaganda crap. I guess they have drank from the kool-aid dispenser so much they can't think for themselves.
This is an anecdote as related by the deceased Rabbi, but I believed the Rabbi when he told it.
All this nonsense about guns in the hands of Jews not cutting down radically on the holocaust. The Polish Jew who was in it did not believe this Liberal pablum.
Thanks for post. I had previously read about her. Forgotten details.
“She survived Hitler and wants to warn us”
http://humoresyamores.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/she-survived-hitler-and-wants-to-warn-us/
There is more there. she is sure bright for her age.
This is more "nuanced" bullstalin from the left, same as how they defended liberals who called Sarah Palin a "c*nt" while attacking Rush Limaugh for his "slut" comment about a woman who needed THOUSANDS of condoms every year. Too poor to pay for her own birf controls, she then vacationed in Europe with her boyfriend.
Yep.
The truth is murdered under Leftist. They cannot survive it, so it is never allowed.
There is no shortage of left-wing professors willing to give journalists their take on history.
P
This ludicrous statement mirrors the recent statements from my liberal friends who believe the Aurora shooting would have been worse if there were other armed citizens in the theater who attempted to stop it.
Yep.
AP = Always Propaganda
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