Evening star., 1945-11-04
BY DANIEL DE LUCE.

BY DANIEL DE LUCE.
Copyright, 1916, BY The Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. Sat 8:48 pm. on
March IL, 1888, Reichsmarshal Her.
man Goering dictated the telegram
the puppet Arthur Seyss -Inquart
was to prepare inviting German
armed forces into Austria.
Goering said the puppet would not
even have to 60 through the formal
ity Of sending the telegram-he
would merely have to acknowledge
agreement with its contents.
Tell him." said Goering in
breathless haste to the German
State Secretary Wilhelm Keppler,
1T is not necessary that he send the
telegram. He only has to say
agreedl"
Thus was arranged the pretext
for the march of German troops
into Austria, the act that led to the
extinction of Austria as an indie
pendent State and its annexation
on March l3, 1898, to Hitlers greater
Reich.
Out of the mouths of the Nazis
themselves, living and dead. comes
this inside story of the Anchluss.
The whole staggering minute-by-
minute account was shouted over
the long distance telephone-Berlin
to Vienna, to Rome, to London, to
Linz as the Nazis threatened,
bluffed, cajoled, lied and dictated
according to the necessities of the
occasion.
Filed I'm Archives.
At Goering's Air Ministry an eff
cient listening post copied down the
torrent of angry words, fulsome
boasts and wheedling hattery, and
when Austria was delivered bag and
baggage, Air Ministry officials bound
the entire record of 100 neatly typed
pages and 10000 words inside plain
black cardboard folder labeled
Secret Archives. Conversations
Austrian Case, March, 1885,"
The historic folder went unno-
ticed among the tons of documents
strewn about the wrecked palace Of
the Luftwaffe when the Red Army
occupied Berlin this spring.
For two cigarettes, two elderly
Germans who were cleaning up and
burning the tattered papers in the
courtyard, loaded my jeeps with
these NaZi records. The folder on
the Austrian case was included in
the salvage.
Translated and condensed, the
folder gives the detailed and chorn-
illogical history of the biggest black
mail of its time.
At the height of his clustering,
Goering gave Austria an ultimatum
to form a new Nazi government in
less than two hours or 5000 Ger
man troops would march into the
country.
He commented that If 66-year-old
Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas
could not understand in four hours
what had already been said perhaps
he could understand that language
in four minutes.
!. Talk With Seyss- -Inquart.
/ The record opens with Goering' s
personal transcript of an inter1aa-
tional telephone conversation at
2:45 pm. on Friday March II, the
day before the German march into
Austria, with Seyss-Inquart, the Ma
tionaI, Socialist Minister Of Interior
and Public Security whom Chancel-
lor Kurt Schuschnigg had taken into
the cabinet in an effort to appease
Hitler. Seyss-Inquart, later. re-
warded with the German commits
sionership over The Netherlands, is
one of the defendants at the forth
coming Nuremberg trials.
Goering-"How goes 1t with you?
Did you resign, is there anything
new. to tell2"
Seyss-Inquart THE chancellor
has called of the elections"
This was the national plebiscite
which Schuschnigg in a surprise
move two days before had called
for the following Sunday on the
Austrian governments policy of in
dependence toward Germany. In a
rage, the Nazis accused him of
breaking his word with Hitler in
their famous Berchtesgaden confer
ence of month before.
Seyss-Inquart explained that he
and others were now placed in a
difficult position:
Goering - Chancellor Schusch-
nigg's action is not sufficient. Call
ing off the elections can be only a
postponement, but no change in
the present situation which was
created by Schuschnigg's behavior
in breaking the Berchtesgaden
agreement. 1t must be expected
that the National Socialist minis
tiers, you and the others, will hand
in their designations to the chan
cellor, and he will resign too. Send
the telegram we have spoken Of
to the Fuehrer."
Demand for Lifting of Ban.
Goering, speaking with one Dom.
browski Of the German Legation ir
Vienna at S pm, March 11-"By
7:30 cabinet must be formed anc
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