I received this speech in an email from a listener.  Some have tried to say it is not true, however, I have listened to her on YouTube.  She is very wise and has an important message!

Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old.  She now lives in South Dakota.

This is a SCARY piece of HISTORY. Read & perhaps
learn something new from HISTORY and “HOPE & CHANGE".

America truly is the Greatest Country in the World.
By: Kitty Werthmann

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. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% 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 deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% 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.

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 -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to
believe that everyone 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, 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.

Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates
Religious Instruction for Children:

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. 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. 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.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

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. 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.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work
force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take
your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock,
7 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.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

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

"Mercy Killing" Redefined:

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.

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

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.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied
Austria. Women were raped, pre-teen to elderly. The press never wrote about
this, either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they
could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole
orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned. We called it
"The Burned Earth". Most of the population barricaded themselves in their
houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those
who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to
those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness
account.

"It's true...those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip
Away!

"After America , There is No Place to Go...!!"