‘Words cannot express the jubilation and joy with which we greeted our leader! The liberator of our German Austria’: An Austrian Woman Hails the Anschluss

Berta Hofmann

A frankly terrifying, hand written letter dated March 16th 1938 which provides a first hand, unfiltered perspective on the Anschluss. Berta Hofma… Read more

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A frankly terrifying, hand written letter dated March 16th 1938 which provides a first hand, unfiltered perspective on the Anschluss. Berta Hofmann writes to her friends Mr and Mrs Welter, presumably in England, only 4 days after the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on March 12th 1938. ‘Words cannot express the jubilation and joy with which we greeted our leader! The liberator of our German Austria. At last we can confess out German feelings in our own country... The feeling to be out and celebrate with the masses was irresistible. I saw him 5 times... Free, free, free!’.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Letter in good condition, written in black ink in an animated hand. Signed ‘Yours Berta Hofmann, Vienna X, [Gudkunsts] 148.

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Date published 1938

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