Calm before the storm
No one knows what tomorrow will bring
-
“The streets are strangely calm, "Calm before the storm." At five p.m. there are swastika flags on display on some buildings (Meyerzett House). According to a radio report, the Austrian government has resigned and Seyß-Inquart is said to have assumed power. Deeply upset, we are rushing home from the shop.”
Linz
Adolph Markus lived in Linz, Austria with his wife and two children. One month before the “Anschluss” (the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938), he started keeping a diary which offers a gripping account of the growing tension. The situation was changing from day to day, and the Jews could only guess what would happen next. One day before the annexation, Markus wrote in his diary: “The streets are strangely calm. ‘Calm before the storm.’”
Follow a 24-hour multimedia reconstruction of the Annexation of Austria online at www.zeituhr1938.at
Live from March 11, 2018, 18:00 until March 12, 2018, 18:00 (Central European Time)
SHARE
SOURCE
Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Diary, February 1938 – December 1939, Adolph Markus, ME1090
Source available in English
