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1 of 2016

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adark30:

“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.

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.

Hitler is welcomed to Austria

“In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent 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.’

“We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “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 in Germany 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,” remembers Kitty, “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.

“Then we lost religious education for kids

“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.”

And then things got worse.

“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,” remembers Kitty. “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.

“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,” remembers Kitty. “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.

“When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers.

“You could take your children ages four weeks old to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, seven 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.

“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 percent 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, too

“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, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“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.

“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.”

“This is my eyewitness account.

“It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

“America is truly is the greatest country in the world. “Don’t let freedom slip away.

“After America, there is no place to go.”

Kitty Werthmann

***Re-read the part where she says “everything was free” - healthcare and so on. Very much worth reading twice.****

4 notes ? should be 4 million

Only 13 notes =/ Please even if you don’t read it now because of reasons, repost it for others to read <3 

NEVER forget.

This could always happen again. Remember this well.

Never again!

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improbablegalaxies:

micdotcom:

Watch: Complaining about political correctness says more about you than it does others.

@sarahalyse

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I will close Guantanamo Bay. —Barack Obama (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, [and now] 2016)

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starplatinumispure:

iron-on patch I just finished. will post in my store soon.

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mmkayn:

vastderp:

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theatre-whovian:

vastderp:

Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.

There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.

It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish. 

THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS

Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.

Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together. 

this continues to be the best reply to a criticizing comment on this site

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bambii17:

This occurred at another high school in my district:

Olympia High School: Olympia, Washington 

(360) 596-7000

http://olympia.osd.wednet.edu/

“ My name is Kardel Arnold. On Friday, at Olympia High School, some friends of mine and I put up some signs around school that stated things such as “Black Lives Matter”, “Am I Next?” and more. Our school took down my signs because they said we were “threatening” white students. So later that night painted the school rock. We wrote “MLK’s dream lives forever”, “Justice Over Power” and “Black And Proud”.

Unfortunately, last night some students returned and painted over our original paintings and wrote this things like “white and proud”, “race doesn’t matter, because no one f****** cares” and more.

it’s sad that students of color can’t fight for what they believe without someone bashing them. “

Keep reading

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sourcedumal:

girlwithalessonplan:

jezi-belle:

faintedincoils:

itsoktobeahumanwoman:

julierthanyou:

wynn-b:

hermioneclone:

Highlights from the Lin Manuel Miranda NPR interview. He was not taking any shit (and was flawless doing so):

Interviewer: The other performers are Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga. How does your music fit into that mix?

LMM: Well, it’s music….

~

Interviewer: Hip-hop isn’t the standard Broadway music. And you’ve incorporated this nearly all-minority cast rapping, hip-hopping. This is about guys who wore powdered wigs. They wrote the federalist papers. How does it work, why does it work?

LMM: The casting is not ‘minority.’ Your piece is going to be dated in about five years when we’re the majority. So you might want to say ‘people of color.’

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Originally posted by frankenrose

🙏

Good lord they can’t even pronounce his name right 😒

Interviewer: How significant is it to you that it is such a popular show? The Oscars have been running with a hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite. But that doesn’t seem true for the Grammys. What does that mean to you?

LMM: “First of all, I’m thrilled to be in a season so extraordinary and diverse as this one. ‘On Your Feet!,’ ‘Allegiance,’ ‘Shuffle Along,’ ‘The Color Purple.’ It’s been an extraordinary year for diversity on Broadway. But that being said, it’s all an accident of timing. Last year’s Tonys were just as white as this year’s Oscars are. It’s three theater owners and 40-something theaters and that’s all a combination of luck and what’s ready and what’s in the pipeline. So don’t pat yourselves on the backs too hard, Broadway. It’s all about what comes in a given year and I’m really excited we’re part of this season.”

Jesus he just shut them completely down

It would not be unfair to say he

went Ham

OH MY WORD

Go the ENTIRE fuck off Lin!

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awwww-cute:

Cutest best friends forever……. (Source: http://ift.tt/1PYh2Z9)

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ababrams:

favorite broad city scenes: [14/?] - S02E04: Knockoffs
“I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye.”

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olennawhitewyne:

heroine-problem:

nocakeno:

for those who weren’t around for arkh project: incredibly predatory tumblr user with a history of fraudulent fundraisers claimed they were making a video game, put up enough concept art to indicate that the protagonist literally owned another person and This Was Fine And Romantic, and at the height of their “productivity” managed to produce a walk cycle that was not actually viewable because the clip lasted only a fraction of a second. people gave them a lot of money and then they got chased off the website for fraud and shitty treatment of other users (stalking, doxxing, harassing, etc). now they’re back!

IDK how many of y'all know about Arkh Project, but it’s a scam run by shitty people so don’t give them money!

It’s worth noting that they’re not doing it as “the Arkh Project” now; Riley just set up a YouCaring page (a site designed to help people pay for medical bills and the like) for money to “make video games.” Hopefully we’re all more knowledgeable about crowdfunding scams, especially in video games, not to fall for this. But you can never be too careful!

DON’T give them any money, and report the page to YouCaring as a scam.

For those who are newer to Tumblr, here’s some background on the Arkh Project.

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shitrichcollegekidssay:

lmao when you stop going to school because you can’t afford it, and they keep jacking up the interest so you can never go back to university to get a degree which would allow you a job that could actually pay off the amounts owed what are they even trying to accomplish, because it’s not get paid.

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telesilla:

awesome-picz:

Cats That Need Your Attention The Exact Moment You Start Reading  

Cats Against Literacy

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buzzfeedcanada:

This Canadian Model Transforms Herself Into Superheroes With Just Body Paint

(With ghoulishly good videos too. Damn.)

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executeness:

autisticsamusaran:

sometimes people are incompatible with other people and it’s no one’s fault they’re just bad for each other

like not just romantic relationships but any relationships

& it doesn’t even require one of them to be abusive or evil, two good people who share respect for one another can be bad for each other

And love doesn’t conquer all. Loving each other very much doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good for each other. Mutual love doesn’t make all problems solvable. There are some difficulties and differences and disparities that can’t be fixed no matter how much love and patience and communication you throw at them. It doesn’t mean y’all didn’t try your best and it doesn’t mean you don’t love each other. It just means that maybe you need to love each other from a distance. And that’s okay

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