Figure 1.--This color plate appeared in the 1939 volume of "Jungen: Eure Welt". I am not sure, bit I believe it shows the Wehrmascht entering a rejoycing Austrian town, not exactly the image most of us have about the Wehrmacht. |
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We have found a 1939 volume. Hitler launched the War in 1939, but the book was published in 1938 for release un 1939. "Lucky Austria" may seem strange to us today, but the Anschluss was in fact very popular in Austria. This can be seen in the crowds that greeted Hitler when he entered Austria and spoke to the Austrian people. World War II histories decribe how unpopular the Versailles Peace Treaty was in Germany. Actually the St Germain Treaty (1919) which Austria signed was even more unpopular and affected Austria much more than the Versailles Treaty affected Germany. Interstingly there is no article about the Sudetenland and the Munich Treaty, perhaps because it occurred later in the year.
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