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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva;"><span><strong>After America, There is No Place to Go</strong></span><br />by Kitty Werthmann </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;" align="justify">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.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;" align="justify">I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide-98 percent 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 a deep depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana,Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;" align="justify">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 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 thirty 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...<a href="http://www.theoakinitiative.org/oak-leaf-16" target="_blank" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">read more</a></p>