NEWS MEMORIES "CBS NEWS Nazi Austrian Invasion"

A CBS Radio News special report. March 12, 1938. Robert Trout reports Nazis take Austria. Nineteen months would elapse from the day Hitler  grabbed control of the German Army until the actual start of World War II. During those months, Hitler engaged in a kind of gangster diplomacy in which he bluffed, bullied, threatened, and lied to various European leaders in order to expand the borders of his Reich.