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THE MAN
HATES
is not a Jew, nor à Russian, nor a "Frenchman that Hitler hates most in all the world.
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1938.
HITLER MOST
So archdukes, princes, counts, barons were herded into the prisons and concentration camps. Jews Government supporters, trade un ionists and Socialists came only Archduke Otto, heir to the Habs- second in the line. Contemptuously burg throne of Austria-Hungary. Marshal Goering spoke in his
It is a
fellow-Austrian
www
the
If ever Otto sets foot on German land he will face trial on charge of high treason, punishable with death.
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triumphant speech to a vast au- dience of "that little playboy of a Habsburg who chatters too much." A few days later the capital ban
Any other of the family who sat was laid against Otto. for so many centuries in Charlema-
same
gne's seat, may expect the treatment. Hitler loathes the whole
brood and has never made a secret
Why the hate? What is the veï- detta here?
It goes back to the origins
of
be-
of it. Remembering the fate of Mein Kampf, to the youth of Hitler, the young Bourbon princel'ng, the wretched, hungry and alone in cyni- Due d'Enghlien, whom Dictator cal, cal'ous, glittering Vienna Napoleon seized from beyond his fore the war, It goes down into
the soul itself of Nazism. border, tried for treason and shot in one night, the Archduke Otto may decide to keep wide of the Reich.
It is not that Hitler is jealous of Third a rival, that the upstart usurper de- tests the legitimate heir. IT IS THAT HITLER BELIEVES THAT THERE CAN NEVER BE A GREATER GERMANY WITH A HABSBURG EMPIRE.
Even before he ever saw Vienna Hitler the schoolboy, had made up his mind about the Habsburgs.
"MEIN KAMPF".
́Hitler loathes Archduke Otto not through jealousy but because, he says, the Habsburgs were the patrons and protectors of the Czechs.
George, "a
becn
"Red Plot, Red Riots in Vienna!" ran the Nazi newspaper headlines
ramshackle Empire." secutions which would have as the German army marched in to annex Austria this spring. But the
"From my earliest youth I was There was only one way of holding ‘justified"."
by first men that the Gestapo police convinced that Austria's destruction them together, and that was
government seized were not Communists or was a vital condition for the security vigorous "German"
The Germans, Socialists. They were Monarchists. of the German Race; and what is from the Centre.
indeed, did what real governing On the European plane it should more that the House of Habsburg, Hitler did not fear the illegal was bent on doing positive harm to there was ("aided perhaps by a few have been obvious that Italy could "Red Front" nor even the official the German Race. Thus I drew the Hungarians") and also were the never be a loyal partner of the so- "Fatherland Front," which backed moral. Henceforth for me it was to source of all the real music, archi- called Triple A'lance. The Italians, the Government of Chancellor be intense love for my German-
tecture and sculpture and painting, who had no quarrel with Germany, In had an age-old vendetta with the Schuschnigg. He calculated that in Austrian home and deep, abiding but were getting a raw deal.
labours they Habsburg dynasty which for so a moment of crisis and confusion hatred against the Austrian State." return for all their
then from only one man could wrest the victory
were simply being de-Germanised," long, had forbidden
Sò Italy, from his fist, only one leader could The "Austrian State" of fifty becaise the aim of the Government creating a united Italy. hope to inspire the loyalty of mil milions was a conglomerate of Ger- was actually to create a Slav State, who could not yet fight Austria, be- lions, and he another exile from his mans. Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks,
came her ally with the plain inten- country-the heir of the once glori- Poles. Serbs, Croats, Ruthenians—
was doing, that criminal tion of deserting her at the first History has recorded the fied and never-forgotten Habsburg and Jews! Hitler describes them in work? The Czechs! And who was the chance. dynasty, Otto.
the same phrase as Mr. Lloyd patron and protector of the Czechs?
The Habsburgs!
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Who
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Austria herse'f could not avoid the war. Challenged on the southern "The 'Arch House' itself tried to border by the implacable Slav spread Czech ideas wherever possi- enemy, she had to fight or fall to ble," says Hitler. The heir to the pieces. There was good reason to throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, believe that this would happen any- was married morganatically to a way as soon as the old Emperor Czech countess, Sophie Chotek. He Franz Joseph died. He had become spoke Czech in his family life. so much the personification of the Hitler vehemently accuses him of State that his end must seem in the heading the pan-Slav movement, eyes of the mass of the people to be- working from the very. fountain, the equivalent of the death of the head, of the State. Even so, the State itself. And history has re- Slavs were in a hurry. They killed corded that.
him at Serajevo,
So Germany, chained to the car.
"It was the hand of the Goddess cass of this rotting State, went into of Eternal Justice and Inexorable the abyss. She; too, "had to fight, Retribution that caused the most War. opened its' fearful maw. deadly enemy of Germaniam in Aus- tria, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to fall by the very bullets that he had himself helped to mould!”
Hitler fell on his knees, thanked But he God, and wept for joy. would not fight for hateful Austria. On August 8 he petitioned King But Germany, too, was to pay Ludwig, III. of Bavaria for leave to bitterly. Her alliance with the serve in a Bavarian règiment of the The same day, he was ac- shadow State of Austrin had laid line.
the germ for all the world. tragedy cepted. He entered on four years that followed. - Those German-Aus- of hell and horror, mud, and 'bore. trians who realised the betrayal of dom, "the greatest and most, un- Germanism that, was being enacted forgettable perfod of thy life.". were mortified and stutified by the
formal entente between the heads of These articles are an examination the two States. Indeed, when of the policy expounded in “Mein Hitler, then in Munich, first heard Kampf," based on both the original of the murder of the Archduke he German version and the special dreaded that the bullets had been translated English edition. "The fired from German revolvers, and English translation is published by he expected "a how wave of per Hurst and Blackett at 5s.