Курт Шушниг цитаты

„…Период с 12 февраля по 11 марта — это «четырехнедельная агония»…“

Из речи в бундестаге Австрии 24 февраля 1938 года

„…Я чувствовал, что наступил момент принять четкое решение. Ответственность перед страной обязывала не ждать, когда тебе через несколько недель заткнут рот… Ставки в игре настолько повысились, что требовалось приложить максимум усилий…“

Об аншлюсе <br class="br">Источник: АНШЛЮС: НАСИЛИЕ НАД АВСТРИЕЙ, [http://wunderwaffe.narod.ru/ http://wunderwaffe.narod.ru/HistoryBook/Rise_Fall/Anshlus.htm,, 2010-12-18, ru]

„Я прощаюсь с народом Австрии и от всего сердца прошу: «Боже, защити Австрию!»“

Из воспоминаний Шушнига

„…Герр рейхсканцлер, вклад Австрии нельзя отделить от общей картины германской культуры… Мы сделаем все, чтобы устранить препятствия, стоящие на пути взаимопонимания, насколько это возможно…“

При передаче власти Зейсс-Инкварту

„Сегодня днем, в два часа, тревога! Американцы! Американцы заняли гостиницу! Мы свободны!“

Гитлеру

„…Риббентроп советовал мне принять требования сразу. Я возражал и ссылался на предшествующие соглашения, подписанные с фон Папеном перед приездом в Берхтесгаден. Я дал понять Риббентропу, что не ожидал таких необоснованных требований…“

4 мая 1945 года, когда американцы освободили концлагерь, где содержался Шушниг с семьёй

Курт Шушниг цитаты

„…Я стал поддаваться, пав жертвой собственной наивности…“

Из воспоминаний Шушнига по поводу ультиматума Австрии

„…Не возражаею, так как выбора все равно нет…“

Из письменных показаний Шушнига на Нюрнбергском процессе

„…Президент Миклас был непреклонен. Он не хотел назначать нациста на пост австрийского канцлера. Когда я стал настаивать на назначении на этот пост Зейсс-Инкварта, он опять воскликнул: «Вы все предали меня! Все!»“

На предупреждение посла Франца фон Папена перед встречей с Гитлером в Бергхофе о присутствии на ней генералов Кейтеля, Рейхенау и Шперле

“In the Vienna of the First Republic a tendency to anti-semtism was particularly marked in the years of economic upheaval, between 1921 and 1923... At the time organized anti-semitism was definitely led by the newly-formed National-Socialist movement, which stressed the racial and "völkisch" aspects and linked the problem with the Anschluss movement.”

Но я не видел, кого можно было бы назначить, кроме Зейсс-Инкварта. Мне оставалось только поверить всем тем обещаниям, которые он мне дал, поверить ему как истинному христианину и честному человеку…

Курт Шушниг: Цитаты на английском языке

“The situation changed visibly when sentimental reasons and long-term political aims gave way to a stern, ruthless nationalist ideology which would brook no compromise. Hitler had categorically demanded the Anschluss in "Mein Kampf"…. As early as 1923 Hitler had decide that, if necessary, the National-Socialists must take over the government in Austria by force.”

Источник: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 63

“Austria had become the second German state in fact, because there German culture, now homeless in its old home, found a new country. The more violent the opposition to German National-Socialism, the more justified became the Austrian claim to be the representatives of the now homeless German culture and of the higher values of Germanism. To all intents and purposes Weimar had been exiled from the Third Reich and had found its home in Vienna.”

Источник: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 39

“There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from Nazism. We do not like arbitrary power, we want law to rule our freedom. We reject uniformity and centralization.... Christendom is anchored in our very soil, and we know but one God: and that is not the State, or the Nation, or that elusive thing, Race. Our children are God’s children, not to be abused by the State. We abhor terror; Austria has always been a humanitarian state. As a people, we are tolerant by predisposition. Any change now, in our "status quo", could only be for the worse.”

Источник: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 44

“In the turbulent years after 1933, anti-semitic slogans were current among the small shopkeepers of Vienna, as they had been sixty years before; they were directed primarily against the big department stores. In glaring contrast to the racial anti-semitism of the National-Socialists, however, the background to this movement was purely economic. No legal restrictions were placed on the Jews nor were any economic handicaps imposed,... There was never any discrimination in the schools, and in the academic profession, the business world and cultural life Jews continued to play their respected, even leading, role.”

"Morning Telegraph" of London (January 5, 1938), reprinted in "Let the Record Speak", Dorothy Thompson, Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1939) p. 135

“As in other European countries there were anti-semitic tendencies in pre-Hitler Austria too. Formerly political forces, together with the official authorities, had been sufficiently strong to prevent any excesses and nip any outburst in the bud apart from some verbal invective. Karl Renner says: … Throughout the Christian Social period in power no harm came to a single Jew in Vienna; in fact the Jewish element made far greater progress in the press, literature, theatre and business worlds than in the previous so-called liberal period... It must not be forgotten, however, that Vienna was the entry point for Jews from the East who did not assimilate easily.”

Источник: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 63

“People were not all fascists on one side and bolshevists on the other. A contemporary writer says” ‘if there is talk of fascism in Austria, in the interest of historical accuracy and the honour of our people it should be stated that the first Austrian fascists were extreme left-wingers and that they were directly responsible for the emergence and formation of the other brand of fascism.”

Источник: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 62