1938 (33 page)

Corrupt Jewish businessmen received into heaven.

LIVING IT UP IN VIENNA

Hitler and Dr. Goebbels appear before the crowds in Steyr, Upper Austria, where the Führer had spent an unhappy year as a boy.

Vienna’s best restaurant, Zu den Drei Husaren, was Aryanized and placed in the hands of Otto Horcher, the restaurant tsar of the Third Reich.

NAZI ART

Göring’s birthday in January: He receives a painting by Austrian artist Hans Makart from his master.

Albert Speer’s model for a new Berlin.

The Munich art parade in July.

KRISTALLNACHT

A wrecked synagogue after Goebbels’s pogrom of November 9-10.

Jewish men from Baden-Baden are led off to a concentration camp.

Jewish women are singled out for humiliation.

CONFERENCES

The Evian Conference in July failed utterly in its attempt to find a refuge for Germany’s Jews.

In September the Munich Conference sealed Czechoslovakia’s fate.

THE RAPE OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Hitler visits his new domain, the Sudetenland.

Ethnic Germans prepare to celebrate their return to the Reich.