February 25, 1932

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Martin Antonenko

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Deportation fails :
Austria doesn't want Hitler back!


On February 25, 1932 - just under a year before he "seized power", the failed painter and politician Adolf Hitler received...



...German citizenship through the Free State of Braunschweig...:



Since Hitler applied for his release from the Austrian state association in April 1925, he had been stateless.

He had done this to prevent an imminent deportation by the Bavarian state to Austria.

In a letter dated March 28, 1924, the Munich police department (where Hitler lived) officially asked the Upper Austrian provincial government in Linz whether they had any objections to deportation.

But the Austrians didn't want Hitler back!

After several exchanges of letters between Linz and Vienna, the Viennese Federal Chancellery finally gave the Upper Austrian provincial government in Linz official instructions on October 11, "to turn Austria away at the national border or, if necessary, to intern him" if Hitler tried to enter Austria.

The justification: Hitler is no longer Austrian, since he has “stayed outside of Austria for more than ten years and has served in the German army”.

Hitler had previously tried seven times to obtain German citizenship.

Always in vain!

On February 25, 1932, he is finally successful! Pro forma he even took up his official residence at Braunschweig from February 26, 1932 to September 16, 1933, as these registration certificates show...:



The matter was arranged by the later Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick...



...and Hitler's legal adviser from the NSdAP Hans-Frank...



…the later Nazi governor general of occupied Poland.

On February 17, 1932, the two Nazis met in the Braunschweig Café Lück...



...with Brunswick politicians and the responsible state interior minister Friedrich Alpers...



... and made things clear.

Alpers was also a Nazi from the start and later rose to the rank of SS Brigadefuhrer. And this was exactly the reason why Braunschweig was chosen by the Nazis to help Hitler obtain German citizenship!

If the Braunschweig bureaucracy had rejected Hitler's application, he would not have been able to become Reich Chancellor - and people around the world would have been spared the "Führer" (and so many other things)...
 
Wonder how the world would look if he hadn't got citizenship



Nap

I doubt it would have been very different. There were a number or fiery Nazi orators who would have pushed the message (Hess, Goebbels, Streicher et al) and I think Germany was ready for confrontation. Without Hitler, the climax may have been longer in coming, and without some of his dumb tactical and strategic meddling it might have ended somewhat differently.

Phil
 
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