The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.
Arthur Seyss-InquartThe southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness. The Prussian does not have the imagination to conceive in terms of abstract racial and political theories, but when he is told to do something, he does it.
Arthur Seyss-InquartDeath by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-InquartThe Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart