HISTORY BOOK FOR THE GERMAN YOUTH [Geschichtsbuch fuer die Deutsche Jugend]
Contents
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Adolf Hitler Hindenburg Herman Goering Horst Wessel
Herbert Norkus, the Hitler Youth Boy of Beusselkitz
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Albert Leo Schlageter
Otto Weddigen and the U-9
The "Emden" hunting ships in the Indian Ocean
General Litzman, the Lion of Bschesing
Sepp Innerkofler
The German soldier on the West Front Baron. Manfred von Richthofen Lettow-Vorbeck's heroic fight in German East Africa Otto von Bismark Andreas Hofer Queen Louise Nettelbeck Schill . Bluecher Frederic the Great Maria Theresa
Frederic William I, the Soldiers' King Prince Eugene, the "Noble Knight"
The "Great Elector"
Hanseatic sea heroes Herman Balk
Emperor Fredric Barbarossa Henry the Lion Emperor Otto I
King Henry I
Emperor Charles Widukind, Duke of Saxony Armin the Liberator
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[Page 11] -Taking over of Austria
"Finally, the Fuehrer thought he could dare to go ahead. He asked the Austrian Chancellor to visit him on the Obersalzberg. There he spoke very seriously to him. He said that things could not go on this way any longer and that the persecution of Germans in Austria had to stop. And the chancellor seemed to pay attention to Adolf Hitler. He promised that he would release all National-Socialists from imprisonment; he even was going to appoint a National-Socialist as a Minister next to himself, and he wanted to live in close friendship with the Reich from then on. At first, he did what he had promised. He appointed the NationalSocialist Seyss-Inquart as minister. But soon it became apparent that this was only deception. He broke his word; he wrote secretly to France and England, asking for their help against Adolf Hitler. Terrific resentment grew in Austria. Hundreds of thou-
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sands of people marched angrily and indignantly in the streets. It was then that Seyss-Inquart asked the Fuehrer to send German troops into Austria to restore order . . The Fuehrer gave the order to march in. Everywhere on the Austrian border in the dawn of 12 March 1938 were the long columns of German Infantry, cavalry, artillerymen with their pieces, the tanks. All rifles were ready to be fired; after all, one did not know how things looked on the other side of the border. The treacherous ministers in Vienna always had the newspapers write: Most of the inhabitants of Austria don't want to come to the Reich at all.
Extract from a history book, on the German takeover of Austria in 1938
Date: Date Unknown
Literal Title: [Title in table of contents;] Geschichtsbuch fuer die Deutsche Jugend (History book for the German Youth).
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2446
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450304
Notes:The title is not in the document; it has been taken from the document book's table of contents. No author or date is stated.