Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salzburg's first full-blown festival since 1937; last year's was a worthy try, but dismal. This year nostalgic Austrians hoped to recapture the pomp and glitter of pre-Anschluss Salzburg; what they got, judging by last week's opening performances, was a reasonable facsimile...
Expropriation. Under the loosely worded Potsdam agreement the Russians have claimed most of the property the Nazis took from Austria after the forced Anschluss. Much of Austria's industrial equipment has gone East. The Russians take all but a dribble of the production of the Zistersdorf oilfields; Russian levies on the Austrian treasury defeated all the Government's efforts to stabilize the currency...
...Andrieux, director of the Sûreté, pointed to the French record of clearing out suspected Nazi sympathizers. He had fired 58 of 147 lawyers, 134 of 356 judges, 1,361 of 2,300 police officials. Andrieux summed it up: "If a man was a party member before Anschluss...
None of Vienna's eight cautious dailies mentioned the life-&-death news of food and fuel. Instead, they growled over old bones, squabbling about who was to blame for Anschluss (the German seizure of the country) eight years...
When Hitler came, Figl, who opposed Anschluss, obscurely and honorably disappeared into concentration camps, first Dachau, then Flossenburg. After six years the Nazis slipped up, set him free. Promptly Figl set to work as an organizer in what little underground movement Austria developed. He represented the Austrian resistance in contacts with the much stronger Polish underground. After liberation he founded the Volkspartei of small agrarians, much like Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party...