http://www.bobpearcy.com/austria-1938-land-of-the-sound-of-music-story/ The World Around Us Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bobpearcy.com/austria-1938-land-of-the-sound-of-music-story/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Don’t Relax Because Brown Won In Mass. | Bob's Blog Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:45:56 +0000 http://www.bobpearcy.com/?p=750#comment-196 [...] Here is an excerpt from the story by Kitty Werthmann who was there. “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.” Read the whole story HERE. [...] [...] Here is an excerpt from the story by Kitty Werthmann who was there. “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.” Read the whole story HERE. [...]

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