Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their own. A Viennese girl said to me, "the Germans were bad, but at least they didn't tear out telephones and shash bath-tubs...
After Schumacher's speech, extreme right-wing delegates shouted demands that Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland be returned to Germany, called for a new Anschluss with Austria. Other delegates whistled, shouted "Pfui...
...Austria could be seized by Russia for reparations. For two years, the Deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been deadlocked on the question of precisely what constitutes German assets; the Russians, for example, include in their definition properties which the Nazis seized from the Austrians after the Anschluss. The Big Four might interminably haggle over half a billion dollars' worth of factories, oilfields and Danube River shipping, but all the competent authorities were agreed on one fact: Herr Kaiser's three rings seemed to be German assets, all right. Frau Feix was informed that she must...
Escape. To Wolfgang Foges, 38, Future is a show window for a resourceful printing company known as "Adprint," which is backed by Britain's potent chemical firm, C. Tennant Sons & Co. Ltd. Tennant helped Foges get out of Vienna shortly before the Anschluss; he had already made a name as editor of a youth magazine at 17, a fashion magazine...
...with a deep moral sense, he is outraged by man's inhumanity to man. The worst tantrum he ever threw was on the day of the Austrian Anschluss. He tried to rehearse, but left the podium after the first minute. He didn't stop raging until he had almost kicked a massive table to pieces, pulled all his scores from their shelves, nearly wrecked his dressing room. Then he sat down and cried...