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by order of the Fuhrer,

crossed the sacred river

of German history and occupied

their former garrisons.

They pledged the Fuhrer,

whatever decisions he may make,

unbreakable faith and

obedience and they vow

to follow him and to

prove their sincerity,

by their never ending

love for Germany.

[NARRATOR] The

columns grew longer.

The sound of boots grew louder

on the streets of Nuremberg.

But Hitler said:

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] The German

people is not a people,

which welcomes a war today,

tomorrow or the

day after tomorrow.

That is not in the

character of the Germans.

He is by nature not only

peaceful and peace loving,

but above all conciliatory.

He wants to work.

In our country are

millions of peasants,

they want to till their fields.

They want to bring

in their harvests.

There are millions of workers,

they want to perform their work.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

[NARRATOR] But the

Nazi conspirators,

in the name of Lebensraum,

continued to plot

new aggressions against peace.

In November 1937, Hitler

called a special meeting

with defendants Goering,

Von Neurath and Raeder

and Generals von

Blomberg and von Frick.

The meeting was secret but

Lieutenant Colonel Hossbach,

Hitler's personal adjutant,

faithfully recorded

Hitler's words:

[NARRATOR] The German

question can be solved

only by way of force.

For the improvement of our

military-political position,

it must be our first aim, in

every case of entanglement

by war, to conquer

Czechoslovakia

and Austria simultaneously.

The annexation of the

two states to Germany,

militarily and politically,

would constitute

a considerable relief.

[NARRATOR] This meeting set

the stage for Nazi expansion

and Act One came only three

months later at Berchtesgaden

where a defendant von Papen

finally engineered a meeting

between Schuschnigg,

the Austrian Chancellor,

and Hitler and defendants

Keitel and von Ribbentrop.

Guido Schmidt, who was

Austrian Foreign Minister

at the time, also

attended the meeting.

And now he takes

the witness stand.

Did Hitler demand

that Seyss-Inquart

be made Minister of Security?

[NARRATOR] That was one of

the demands on that program.

[NARRATOR] Where

there also demands

made with regard to currency

exchange and customs?

[NARRATOR] There were demands

of an economic

nature of every kind.

[NARRATOR] Hitler

told you that you

had until February 15th to

accept his terms, didn't he?

And he told you that if you

didn't do so he would use force.

[NARRATOR] The ultimatum

as Hitler stated it

was that he intended, as

early as February, to march

into Austria and that,

for the last time,

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