DOCUMENTS OF GERMAN POLITICS
[Dokumente der Deutschen Politik], Vol. VI, Part 1, Page 183.
Grazer Tagblatt 1938, Nr. 86, pp. 1/2
Goering's speech on the 27th of March in Vienna:
At this moment (announcement on the plebiscite in Austria) it has been established that now the decision really came. A complete unanimity between the Fuehrer and the N.S. confidents inside of Austria existed. According to their opinion also the hour of action had come, but they thought they could not use any more democratic methods in negotiations and they took the law of action in their own strong hands and forced the others to retreat. If the N.S. rising succeeded so quickly and thoroughly and without bloodshed, it is first of all due to the intelligent and decisive firmness of the present Reichsstatthalter Seyss-Inquart and his confidants. But this too proved the correctness of the previous continued politics because if our confidants had not been in the government, this whole course of events would not have been possible.
When called by the Austrian government, the first German troops moved in.
Extract from a speech, on the the "complete unanimity" of Austrian Nazis with Hitler, and the role of Seyss-Inquart and others in taking power through "the law of action"
Authors
Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)
Hermann Göring
German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
- Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
- Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)
Documents of German Politics (Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, serial)
Date: 27 March 1938
Literal Title: Goering on Seyss Inquart . . . Goering's speech on the 27th of March in Vienna:
Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 1
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-3270
Citation: IMT (page 2831)
HLSL Item No.: 453252
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-3270: Extracts from a speech by Goring, 26 March 1938, concerning the part played by national socialist agents in Austria before the annexation