SS Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler’s agents sped through
the streets of Vienna on an early morning, March 11, 1938, to capture and
eliminate Nazi Germany’s enemies. One of his prime targets lived in a
middle-class Jewish neighborhood at 28 Weihoffen St. Apartment 7. Ludwig von
Mises, a 58-year-old political philosopher, was Jewish and defenseless. Hitler
deemed this man an enemy of the state and one of the top targets to be seized
during the Nazi takeover of Austria. Fleeing from the city the day before,
Professor Mises narrowly
escaped to Switzerland.
Despite attempts on his life, Mises born in 1881, spent
the 92 years of his life fighting totalitarianism that fed the actions of the
Nazis, Marxist Socialists and other fringe groups. He believed that any kind of
authoritarian government infringed on people’s rights to worship, free
speech, the right to travel and own businesses, all of which were banned by the
National Socialists and Bolsheviks….To Read More….
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