Okay, that's our introduction. With those points in mind, let's listen to Kitty Werthmann [a survivor of Austria's Nazi occupation] describe the ordinary citizen's experience in occupied Austria, and see if the Nazis believed in redistribution of wealth, guaranteed income, national health care, centralized regulation of industry, and so forth...

So a lot of new things happened very quick. Hitler gave us equal rights. Oh that sounded so very good, equal rights for everybody.

GUARANTEED INCOME
Also everybody was getting a guaranteed income from the government.

The equal rights—here we call it the Equal Rights Amendment—Equal Rights was designed in two components: equality [in] economics, and social.

EQUAL ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Economics—that was designed to equalize the country's wealth, because everybody was entitled to a guaranteed equal income. In order to achieve that, they had to raise our taxes up to 70 percent.

To equalize the wealth, those who were on the lower income level, to graduate them up there to an equal level, they got subsidized housing, they got food stamps, they got heating fuel, and they got a certain amount of payment from the government for each child.

So they equalized the, the country's wealth by taxing us 70 percent to bring that level—the lower income level—into a equal income level, and that is called "socialism."

On the social level—of course under socialism everybody has to be in the workforce. Before Hitler, of course, the moms stayed home, they were good wives, and they raised their families. But under socialism if you are not in the workforce you are called a "parasite," so the moms were being put out into the workforce.

DAYCARE CENTERS
So what happened to the children? Childcare centers.

You could—and it was all free for everybody—you could bring your four-months-old baby, leave it there 24 hours, seven days a week, as long as you left your child there, the better the government liked it.

The staffers of the childcare centers, they were not the grandmotherly type of women who took care of the children, they were young women highly skilled in child psychology, to mold the little babies from four weeks on up how one— how the government wanted them. The government raised our children. So that was the Equality / equal rights for everybody.

EDUCATION NATIONALIZED
The next thing what happened, education was nationalized. […]

NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY
Hitler also nationalized our car industry. Austria built a little car, a little bit bigger than the Fiat. Hitler said "We don't need another little car, we already have the Beetle car, the Volkswagen," so he turned the car industry into a defense industry.

NATIONALIZED BANKS
Also, Hitler nationalized our banks. Hitler said "Those greedy banks, they were the ones who charged twenty five percent interest and that is why the farmers were going broke, and the business were going broke," and he looted the Jewish banks. So our banks were being nationalized.

NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE
Next thing what happened, he nationalized our health care system. We had— we had a, um, a reasonable good health care system which was financed by private insurance. We had good hospitals, we had good doctors, and everybody was reasonable well being cared for.

This all changed very fast. My brother-in-law, who was a family physician, he told me that when he arrived at his office at 8 o'clock in the morning, forty patients would be lined up waiting for him to be cared for. He said it was like practicing medicine on a conveyor belt. He only had time, 5 or 10 minutes per patient, and besides all the paperwork—it was it was a a system from— from well taken-care healthcare, to a very, very bad system. And what was even worse, he told me that naturally all the doctors were being salaried by the government. There was no more free market. Free market did not exist anymore. The government salaried all the doctors.

So, my brother-in-law was a very conscientious doctor. He would only prescribe medication what the patient really needed. But if that medication was not on the government's list, they took it out of his salary and his salary dwindled down to almost nothing.

So a lot of doctors left the country, a lot of doctors left, including my own husband. My husband did not want to practice medicine like his brother had to. He wanted free market medicine. He came to this country and I remember him telling me how wonderful our healthcare system was, how modern our hospitals were com— compared [to] what he left behind. He said "I hope it will never change." Today he would turn over in his grave, how healthcare will change.

REGULATION
Also, of course under a socialist government you have a lot of rules and regulation. We had a planning agency. That was designed to control the businesses and the farmers. The bureaucrats oh, we had tons of bureaucrats—that's how Hitler created jobs. Government jobs. Lotta lot of bureaucrats. And they would go out on the farms and count the life stocks and tell the farmers what to plant, how much to plant, and how much they had to harvest regardless of the weather. They would go into the businesses and snoop around what they could find under the auspices of health and safety. Here we call it OSHA.

They were nitpicking everybody, nitpicking everybody. And I hear that a lot of time from my audiences, how the bureaucrats come into their business and look— snoop around what they can criticize, and what the business owner has to replace. And that's why a lot of businesses in Austria could not afford replacement, whatever what it was—round tables versus square tables and and more bathrooms—so a lot of businesses closed their doors.

So also the bureaucrats would go out in the farms and count the chickens and ordered the chickens how many eggs they had to lay. That's right, ridiculous, absolutely absolute— Ridiculous.