863.00/1468: Telegram
The Chargé in Austria (Wiley) to the Secretary of State
Vienna, March 14, 1938—7
p.m.
[Received March 14—3:43 p.m.]
[Received March 14—3:43 p.m.]
84. From Military Attaché. Thousands of German troops of all arms, complete organizations with full equipment horse and motor transportation have poured into Austria in the last 24 hours by rail, motor and auto bus. German police both city and country S. S. and S. A. by the hundreds in Vienna. Estimate number German troops now in Austria 100,000. Of these 30,000 are in and around Vienna. Mechanised corps with parts or all of Second and Third Divisions present. All membership former Austrian Federal Army to take oath of allegiance to Hitler immediately.
Wiley