Word: anschluss
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After 13 years of Dollfuss, Schuschnigg and Hitler, Anschluss, war and defeat, a record turnout of about 3,500,000 Austrian voters had their say last week in a free election, for a change. The Austrian voters said, decisively, that they did not like Communism. In the zone occupied by the Red Army they said it stronger than anywhere else...
...give the devil his due: the picture was snapped by a German press photographer and first appeared in the National Socialist newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, in the fall of 1938, shortly after the Sudeten "Anschluss." The Nazi explanation was that here were portrayed the intense emotions of joy which swept the Sudeten Germans as Hitler crossed the Czech border at Asch and drove through the streets of the nearby ancient city of Eger, 99% of whose inhabitants were ardently pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans at the time...
...editorial column is an intelligent article denouncing the barbarism of the Austrians that the Germans have unearthed as a result of the Anschluss. It is an ironic turn-about tale; the Germans discovered, in the suburbs of Vienna, an "inhuman" concentration camp where Nazi agents in Austria were being detained by the Schussnigg government...
...August. Since 1842, the city's Austrian Burgers had honored Native Son Mozart with a summer music festival, and since 1900 it had attracted music lovers. Then, in 1934, Arturo Toscanini moved to Salzburg, and thousands came by train and plane to see and hear him. After Anschluss and the departure of Fascist-hater Toscanini, Germany's Wilhelm Furtwangler took over and the festivals became Nazi celebrations...
...Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, who was treated first to Adolf Hitler's rage at Berchtesgaden, then to his country's Anschluss by the Nazi Reich, finally to seven years' captivity...