But this important event for today’s Linz and Upper Austria (at that time Gau Oberdonau) was completely lost in the staged jubilation of the Nazi regime around the third anniversary of the “return to the Reich” on March 12, 1941. After the rapid war successes in Poland and France and the current bombing raids on British cities, the mood in the neighboring Austria was not only euphoric among the third of true to fanatical supporters, but also many of the rest of the population left it
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