After America There is No Place to Go

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 live-stock, 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 after-wards, 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, preteen 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"

From the White House to the Big House: 25 Impeachable Crimes and Counting

From the White House to the Big House: 25 Impeachable Crimes and Counting
> By Fred Dardick Tuesday, July 27, 2010
>
> Last week Rep. Michelle Bachmann was asked what Republicans had in mind
> should they retake the House of Representatives this November, she replied
> "I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after
> another and expose all the nonsense that is going on."
> Considering the sheer volume of illegal and impeachable offences committed
> by Obama and his cohorts over the past couple of years, the House will be
> very busy indeed.
> Putting aside Obama's inept leadership, weakening of our national defenses
> and transparent attempt to socialize our great nation, there are a number of
> more practical crimes that once investigated could lead to Obama's
> impeachment and perhaps even his well deserved imprisonment.
> 25 Obama Crimes the House Should Investigate in 2011
> 1. Convicted felon and Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko's
> purchase of land adjacent to Obama's house in Hyde Park, IL. In 2006, Rezko
> sold a 10 foot strip of his property to Obama for $104,500, rendering the
> remainder of Rezko's $625,000 investment too small to be developed and, for
> all intents and purposes, worthless.
> 2. The provision of Obama campaign donor lists to ACORN in 2007 and
> 2008, more complete than the ones he provided to the FEC. ACORN used the
> lists to raise money for Obama's election from donors who had already maxed
> out their legally allowable contributions.
> 3. Widespread voter fraud including voter intimidation, ballot
> stuffing, falsified documents, and threats of violence against Hillary
> Clinton supporters committed by the Obama campaign and ACORN during the 2008
> Democrat primary election. For more information see my CFP article How Obama
> Used an Army of Thugs to Steal the 2008 Democratic Party Nomination.
> 4. Obama's refusal to release his long form birth certificate which
> would show conclusively that he is a dual citizen and therefore not
> constitutionally eligible to serve as President. Obama's college records,
> which have also not been released, would also contain information regarding
> his dual citizenship status.
> 5. Protecting union interests over those of GM and Chrysler bond
> holders during bankruptcy proceedings, forcing investors to accept millions
> of dollars in losses in direct violation of bankruptcy laws, money to which
> they were legally entitled.
> 6. Preferential treatment given to minority and women owned car
> dealerships by Obama administration officials as part of the auto industry
> bailout program and the forced closing of a disproportionate number of rural
> dealerships located in areas that did not vote for Obama.
> 7. Unsubstantiated firing of Corporation for National and Community
> Service Inspector General Gerald Walpin for exposing Sacramento Mayor and
> Obama supporter Kevin Johnson's misuse of an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant.
> 8. Purchase of Congressional support for the passage of Obama's
> healthcare bill including the "Cornhusker Kickback", "Louisiana Purchase"
> and having the Department of Interior increase water allocations to the
> Central Valley of California to secure the votes of Democrat Reps. Dennis
> Cardoza and Jim Costa.
> 9. Lying to the American people by promising they could keep their
> healthcare coverage if they wanted to, when in reality tens of millions will
> be forced out of their current plans.
> 10. Attempted bribery of Rep. Joe Sestak with job offers to get him to
> drop out of the Senate primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter.
> 11. Directing the EPA to unilaterally set carbon emission standards,
> thus bypassing Congress which opposes Obama's energy reform bill. For more
> information see my CFP article Forget Cap and Trade: EPA Regulation of CO2
> Emissions Will Begin in 10 Months.
> 12. The Obama administration's statement that a panel of experts had
> agreed with their plan for a 6 month Gulf Coast drilling moratorium, when in
> actuality none of them had supported the measure.
> 13. Bullying BP to set up a $20 billion slush fund to compensate Gulf
> Coast businesses and residents affected by the oil spill, to be administered
> by an Obama political appointee without any judicial or congressional
> oversight.
> 14. Implementing a third oil-drilling moratorium after the first two
> were thrown out of court, creating a de facto Gulf Coast offshore drilling
> ban in opposition to two judge's rulings.
> 15. Establishment of a commission to investigate the Gulf Coast oil
> spill that contains not one oil industry expert and whose transparent
> purpose is to push a partisan political agenda rather than investigate the
> cause of the disaster.
> 16. Obama's policy of intentionally not securing our nation's borders,
> in opposition to Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution which calls for
> the President to protect states from foreign invasion, in an attempt to
> blackmail Republican support for comprehensive immigration reform. In
> essence, Obama is holding border states and residents politically hostage
> during a time they are being overrun by a narco-paramilitary invasion.
> 17. Department of Justice illegal race based policies regarding voter
> fraud as exposed by former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams. This
> includes the dropping of voter intimidation charges against 2 Black Panthers
> brandishing weapons in front of a voting location in Philadelphia and the
> stated intention by political appointees to ignore voter crimes committed by
> African Americans, Latinos and other minorities.
> 18. Department of Justice purposefully allowing some states to continue
> their disenfranchisement of military personnel serving overseas in direct
> opposition to the 2009 Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act,
> which was established in response to the more than 17,000 military votes
> that were not counted in the 2008 election because ballots had arrived after
> the deadline.
> 19. Recess appointment of Donald Berwick as head of the Centers for
> Medicare and Medicaid Services without even a token attempt to put him
> through the Congressional nomination process, signaling that Congress's
> constitutional obligation to vet presidential appointees means nothing to
> Obama. The same can be said of the 30+ Obama administration czars.
> 20. Spending $23 million of taxpayer money through the U.S. Agency for
> International Development (USAID) to support a constitutional referendum in
> Kenya in spite of the Siljander Amendment, which makes it illegal for the
> U.S. to lobby for abortion in other countries. The Kenyan referendum was
> partially written by Planned Parenthood and is designed to legalize abortion
> in that nation.
> 21. The participation of the Obama administration in the firing of
> Sherry Sherrod from the USDA without due process because of publicized out
> of context remarks she made at a NAACP meeting in March 2010.
> 22. The White House sham investigation of BP's involvement in the
> release of the mass murdering Lockerbie bomber from prison. The Obama
> administration not only knew beforehand of the Scottish government's plan to
> set Abdel Baset al-Megrahi free on "compassionate" grounds, they even sent a
> letter to Scottish authorities stating their preference for his remaining in
> Scotland over his transfer to a Libyan prison.
> 23. The canceling of 77 properly filed oil field development contracts
> approved by the Bush administration by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar,
> preventing the extraction of up to 3 trillion gallons of oil buried under
> Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and North Dakota, more than enough to end our
> dependence on foreign oil and supply the U.S. with its energy needs for
> hundreds of years at current consumption rates.
> 24. Investigations by the Department of Homeland Security to determine
> the political affiliation of people making Freedom of Information Act
> requests and the subsequent delay and even altogether ignoring of requests
> made by Republican affiliated individuals.
> 25. The hardest to prosecute in court, but worst crime of all that Obama
> has perpetrated against the American people is the economic tyranny that his
> socialist policies have wrecked upon our nation. While Obama has been living
> the life of a king, including frequent 5 star vacations, dozens of concerts
> at the White House and endless rounds of golf, all paid for by taxpayer
> money-the increased transportation and security costs alone are in the
> millions of dollars-he has called for the rest of us to endure economic
> sacrifice. The annual trillion dollar deficits and borrowing of 41 cents of
> every dollar of government spending by Obama is leading to unsustainable and
> potentially catastrophic debt.
> Something to Look Forward to
> These 25 crimes are just what I've been able to dig up over the past couple
> of weeks. No doubt there are many more that I have missed or still as yet
> undiscovered. While any one may be sufficient to impeach Obama, taken as a
> whole it demonstrates that Obama has little to no regard for the rule of
> law.
> I look forward to a Republican controlled House of Representatives
> uncovering Obama's corrupt dealings and exposing this man as unworthy of the
> office of President.
>
> * * * * * * *
> "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of
> himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we
> found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history be the answer
> to this question."