“What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or read in history books,” she likes to tell audiences.
“I am a witness to history.
“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.
Adolph Hitler
“We voted him in.”
If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native Austria. She was 10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching.
“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls.
She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her 11th birthday. But she remembers.
“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.”
No so.
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please take time to read this. we have a nation of sheep that can easily be led by a leader like this. it's time to wake up !!!
Sassly, many of these so called sheep, want to be lead by a monster that says all the things that make then feel all warm and fuzzy. What they refuse to see is this. This Great Leader his slipped the shackles of Slavery back onto there wrist, neck and ankles. You can take a fool out slavery, but you can't take the slave out of a fool.
Thomas Jefferson forewarned us over 200 years ago when he stated - "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither” in addition to the following:
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that it wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
We are oon our way to repeat that history.
She is one of the last few who can tell us firsthand of the folly of "great leaders". Power corrupts. And the people eventually correct their folly. True then, true now, and true in the future. And the Austrians would have NEVER believed anyone who might have been able to tell them what was in THEIR soon-to-be future. The one who DID were shouted down as "extreme", "fringe characters", and unpatriotic. Then, they were jailed or killed. 100 million dead people later, they cried "how could this have happened!?" Answer? You LET it happen. You literally cheered it!! As we are doing today. And, as then, no one thinks it could happen here. Oh no. Not here. Ever. You must be either crazy or un-American to even think that. Don't worry about all the similarities. It's nothing.
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