In part one of losing freedom (2/3), we learned the Austrians willingly invited Hitler and the NAZI’s (National SOCIALIST Party) into their country. Things started to change and there was nothing they could do about it. It was too late. They found the Nazis were equal opportunity haters. Anybody who wasn’t like them was discriminated against in fatal ways.
School Days Consisted Of Indoctrination
“The first two hours of each school day 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.”
Mom Was Very Unhappy
“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.”
Our Society Changed Suddenly
“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.”
Young People Were Drafted
“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 on the front lines.”
When I Got Back
“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 workforce, 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 All Kids
“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.”
Healthcare Was Socialized
(That’s What Socialists Do!)
“After Hitler, health care was socialized and 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.”
Part three next week. Check out Victor Davis Hanson’s book,
‘The End Of Everything.’ Who said it couldn’t happen here?
