Kitty Werthmann was born in Austria and witnessed the effects of Hitler’s policies first hand. The article below dates to at least 1996 -I found it in the July 2012 issue of Military. As we approach another Independence Day it seems entirely appropriate for recirculation, especially in this election year.
Commentors on the websites where the article appears generally consider it to be historically accurate, with the exception of her description of the Austrian election which was a contrived fraud. Others corroborate her story. Left-leaning blogs dismiss Werthmann due to her religion, her position on the 2nd Amendment, her age, and especially because she’s a popular speaker at TEA Party rallies. One website even described her article as pure propaganda.
Regardless of the criticisms, it’s a must-read, IMO. -Bunk X
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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.”
Please forward this message to other voters who may not have seen it.
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[Transcript from http://www.comeandtakeit.com/unclassd.html.]
Tags: 1938, 2nd Amendment, Adolf Hitler, America, Austria, Freedom, History, Independence Day, Kitty Werthmann, Socialism, WWII
I truly do love the USA
VOTE FREE BEER TOMMORROW PARTY/ REAL BOOBIES 2012
our motto “don’t worry about the tab some one else will pay”
This is pure nonsense. There was no election to vote for or against Hitler. There was a referndum AFTER Hitler had marched in in Austria (April 10th 1938)
False. The Austrian currency “Schilling” was so stable that it was called “Alpendollar” (dollar of the Alps). The hyperinflation was back from 1918 to 1923 then the Völkerbund jumped in and saved Austria.
Absolute nonsense.
When Dollfuß took over the government 1933 with a coup d’état he outlawed the Socialist militia “Schutzbund” while the Austrian proto-fascists “Heimwehr” from his party were allowed to stay. This led to a civil war in February 1934 between the two militias (Feb. 12th to 15th 1934). There was no petition.
Quatsch. Sorry, but does this woman have Alzheimer ? Everyone in Austria knew that the Nazis in Germany not only hated the Jews but wanted to evict them. The very first day after the “Anschluß” people in Austria had already written letters to the government to demand that Jewish businesses were handed over to them. Literally everyone in Austria knew that German Nazis = Jew hate.
Pure fantasy.
I’ll stop here because it isn’t worth to read further.
end times.
and what’s all this then? the pirates in first place with a winning record? this was foretold in revelation, daniel, and in the mahabharata i think. bucos in first on or after the 4th means that vishnu or cthulu or the flying spaghetti monster or some vengeful god will grind us up and take our souls…strange times.
end times.
Back in the 1920′s not in 1938. From a total population of 6.8 million in 1938 about 220,000 were unemployed. Do the math.
@ coldwarrior:
Dorian said your substation was struck or something.
How’s all that?
hazza!
Btw.: “Judenhaß” (hate of Jews) was much higher in Austria than in Germany. Literally every group hated the Jews: lefties (one couldn’t differ if the election poster was from the Nazis or the lefties) as well as the (catholic) conservatives (they axcluded Jews from their associations years BEFORE Hitler had marched in) or liberals.
@ coldwarrior:
Awesome.
@ coldwarrior:
At least the Cubs are living down to expectations.
Physists in a lab near Geneva Switzerland have apparently
proven the theory of the “God” particle.
This is the particle that accuns for the shape of &
wight of all matter, being attracted to other prticles.
Rcreating the “Big Bang” scientists were able to see the
footprint & shadow of the particle.
@ coldwarrior:
haha!!!!
the dudes were out to fix it at 4am…kudos to the comcast team, seriously. they had a new switch in by 6am. (this work woke me up…beep beep beep beep…but good on them!)
it’s obvious you don’t have Duke Energy
RIX wrote:
I won’t believe till I see it
Thanks, Guggi. I thought the story smelled bad.
@ Zimriel:
If you read Albert Speers “Inside the Third Reich”
you will read him assert that he knew nothing about
the “Final Solution”
Bullshit!
neighbors are taking up a collection for
a young lady down the street with a special
needs daughter whose house burned up last
night. they were lucky that thier dog woke them up
at 1 am. fire dept says some one else in the
hood was shooting off fireworks and one landed
on her roof setting it ablaze.
prayes for this young family
this is how America works my friends!
@ mawskrat:
I took too much math & not enough science, so I am trying
to get a handle on it.
But it does look like they are very close to viewing
the subatomic “God Particle”
@ RIX:
yep read an article trying to splain it it
easy to understand terms>LOL
I need an even easier explanation
mawskrat wrote:
I hear ya. I am fasinated by it, but I wish
that I had a better understanding.
Perhaps Ludwig will come over & enlighten us./
@ RIX:
OH! noes not Ludwig
RIX wrote:
This would be fun
mawskrat wrote:
Cruel & unusual!
Guggi wrote:
Good morning Guggi. That crazy sumbitch is entertaining.
A compelling warning…I will repost it because it an important message.
CERN physicists report strong evidence of Higgs boson (w/ live video from CERN)
Have fun.
Later Funsters, off for a swim
@ RIX:
don’t forget your little arm floties
@ mawskrat:
floaties…or your noodle/
Hmmmm, let me see. Believe a Firsthand Eyewitness account from someone who was alive and in Austria in 1938, or… Believe Guggi…. Boy that’s going to be a toughie…
Argh…France 24 is running a segment on this big “free clinic” a group of doctors and dentists set up in a high school gym in Kentucky for people who don’t have insurance. People were camped out overnight in line.
The sad part about the story was that they mentioned the scheduled start of Obamacare in 2014, implying that that’s going to solve their problems.
I’m pretty sure that everyone’s healthcare will be like that after it goes into effect.
Many people don’t seem to grasp the difference between health insurance and health care.
A shiny plastic card isn’t going to fix your teeth…
Meanwhile back in Brooklyn…
The Black Widow of competitive eating wins again.
Sonya Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., beat her own record by gobbling down 45 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win the women’s competition at the annual Coney Island contest.
Forty freakin five, and the lady weighs only 100 lbs…
good lord, is it nasty humid out there.
horrible…come releif tho:
…ERN OH/WRN PA/WV/NRN VA THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING…
THE FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT IS STILL A BIT UNCERTAIN…BUT
STRONG SURFACE HEATING IS WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS THE AREA…WHERE
MODERATE-STRONG INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. THE REMNANT
COLD POOL WITH THE ONGOING NW PA STORMS COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH NEW
STORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON…AS WELL AS SURFACE HEATING OVER
THE HIGHER TERRAIN. ANY STORMS/CLUSTERS THAT DO FORM WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS…AND SOME HAIL.
then 97 on friday…97…damn.
doriangrey wrote:
During a very cursory scan of the intertoob on Kitty Werthmann, I came across the following quote from one of her detractors:
I can’t say if her recollections are valid or not, but many of her critics seem to possess the same catastrophic, willful ignorance which fueled the Third Reich.
@ coldwarrior:
It was 118 here today.
//But it’s a dry heat…
lobo91 wrote:
yeah…sure it is.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
@ coldwarrior:
Of course, so is your oven…
MacDuff wrote:
I’ll be 100 percent honest here. I do not put one single gram of trust in anything Guggi (George Soros’s was not a Nazi Collaborator, the America Military is full of rapists) says.
Kitty Werthmann on the other hand can actually prove that in 1938 she was a 12 year old Austrian Citizen living in Austria. Unlike Guggi, Kitty Werthmann is a genuine 100 percent verified eyewitness to the events of 1938 Austria.
So I say again, believe a genuine 100 percent verified eyewitness to the events of 1938 Austria, or believe someone with a known and documented history of historical revisionism, misrepresentation and outright lies. Tough call I tell ya…
coldwarrior wrote:
I guess it would probably be consider cruel and unusual torture to point out we are anticipating an absolutely perfect day here in Sunny Southern California, Temp in the low to mid 70′s humidity in the low 70′s, wind 5 to 8 mph coming in off the Pacific Ocean, skies, mostly sunny with a few high level clouds.
Another one of those days that makes the job of being a weatherman in San Diego California one of the most difficult jobs in America…
coldwarrior wrote:
but my melons lovers this heat
@ doriangrey:
you suck>LOL////
and CW I picked tomtoes today
yummmmy
doriangrey wrote:
San Diego California’s genuinely brutal weather condition for Wednesday July 4th 2012.
I got my website pieced back together today, complete with a new domain and everything.
Feel free to stop by and kick the tires if you have a chance. Suggestions are welcome. You can use the contact form to send them.
//Shameless plug
mawskrat wrote:
Hey… Somebody has to live in Paradise, it’s a rough job and you should be thankful that I have made the personal sacrifice to do it on your behalf…
lobo91 wrote:
Kewl! Who’s the redhead? There’s a spot on the highway between Alamogordo and El Paso called Orogrande. If there’s anything green there it’s because it was the first wizz stop on the way back home from Juarez.
I have never heard about mass rapes in Austria by Soviet soldiers, but I have read a lot about the rapes in Poland and Germany. Austria was occupied so late, that it would have been quite late in the wave of war crimes. Anyway, to me what I have read about those war crimes, that already is bad enough. Hell, Soviets even raped some concentration camp victims in Germany.
Good 4th of July movie just starting on AMC. “Glory”.
@ huckfunn:
Couldn’t tell you, unfortunately
Hahaha, Austria had an obligatory health insurance since 1889 (!) for all workers and employees and only farm-workers were excepted and in Germany it dated back to 1883.
Hitler did only slightly improve health insurance for some special cases and in 1936 private health insurance was introduced in Germany.
OmG this women is off the rails.
doriangrey wrote:
gee..thanks for your sacrifice.
;lol:
Well, it’s past my bedtime over here on the other side of the world.
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey… What can I say, I saw a Herculean Task that someone desperately needed to do and I threw my body at it with a complete and reckless abandonment for my own personal safety and health, I took one for the team because, well someone had to do it and I am possessed of just such a noble spirit…
peoples perceptions are usually a slice of reality. The overall message is correct. The US is the greatest country in the world. Thanks to those that suffered from and fought against the tryanny of people like Obama