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That letter was written to one of the men close to him-Field
Marshal Göring. I think that suffices to demonstrate
Seyss-Inquart as one whose loyalty to Hitler, a foreign dictator, and
to the aims of the Nazi conspiracy, led him to fight for the
Anschluss with all the means at his disposal.
It is appropriate at this time to offer in evidence a document
from the Defendant Von Papen, and to see how he thought the doctrines
of National Socialism could be used to effect the aim of the
Anschluss. I offer Document 2248-PS as Exhibit USA-63. This document
is a letter from Von Papen to Hitler, dated July 27, 1935. It
consists of a report entitled, "Review and Outlook 1 Year after
the Death of Chancellor Dollfuss." After reviewing the success
that the Austrian Government had had in establishing Dollfuss as a
martyr, and his principles as the patriotic principles of Austria,
Von Papen stated--and I quote the last paragraph of the letter,
beginning on Page 1 (Page 146 of the German text):
"National Socialism must and will
overpower the new Austrian ideology. If today it is contended in
Austria that the NSDAP is only a centralized Reich German Party and
therefore unable to transfer the spirit of thought of National
Socialism to groups of people of a different political makeup, the
answer must rightly be that the national revolution in Germany could
not have been brought about in a different way. But when the creation
of the people's community in the Reich will be completed, National
Socialism could, in a much wider sense than this is possible through
the present Party organization--at least apparently--certainly become
the rallying point for all racially German units beyond the borders.
Spiritual progress in regard to Austria cannot be achieved today with
any centralized tendency. If this recognition would once and for all
be stated clearly from within the Reich, then it would easily become
possible to effect a break-through into the front of the New Austria.
A Nuremberg Party Day designated as 'The German Day' as in old times
and the proclamation of a National Socialistic peoples' front would
be a stirring event for all beyond the borders of the Reich. Such
attacks would win us also the particularistic Austrian circles, whose
spokesman, the legitimistic Count Dubsky, wrote in his pamphlet about
the Anschluss: 'The Third Reich will be with Austria, or it will not
be at all. National Socialism must win it or perish if it is unable
to solve this task.'"
We have other reports from Von Papen to Hitler which I shall
offer in evidence presently, showing that he maintained covert