Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
...conviction that Hitler is contemplating an anschluss," William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, said in an interview yesterday...
Because Italians were completely surprised by Hitler's move toward Anschluss, the artificialty of the Italo-German accord has been intensified. "The more Hitler says that the Brenner Pass frontier is safe," he said, "the more the Italians are distrustful...
Evidence of Hitler's surprising of Italian governmental circles by his coup in Austria was demonstrated in the Fascist newsorgans, Dr. Salvemini said, showing that when Chancellor Kurt Schussnig returned from his famous showdown with the German dictator, only to make a strong anti-Anschluss speech, the Italian newspapers printed the Austrian leader's inflammatory words on their front pages and editorially commented favorably on his declarations...
...Fascist government suspected Hitler's move at all, they would not have thus indicated their disapproval of Anschluss...