Word: anschluss
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...ANSCHLUSS...
...important events in that country that led up to World War II and betrayed a darker side of the Austrian character. One was the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by local Nazis in 1934, part of a coup that failed. The other, which so dramatically succeeded, was the Anschluss of 1938, when the German army annexed Austria unopposed...
...conditions were decidedly different, as German Journalists Wagner and Tomkowitz show in their crisp, well-researched narrative of the seven-day Anschluss. The Germans had a growing war machine and Austrian Nazis in key places of power in the country. Increasingly menaced by Hitler, Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, who had succeeded Dollfuss, announced on March 9 that a plebiscite, four days later, would decide whether Austria would keep its independence. A day before the vote could take place German troops were all over Austria. On the 14th, Hitler arrived in Vienna, the city's church bells pealing...
Died. Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf, 84, noted Austrian metallurgist who fled to the U.S. after the 1938 Anschluss and later aided the Allied war effort; in Reutte, Austria. A pioneer in powder metallurgy (a method of producing metal parts without melting the components), Schwarzkopf developed techniques that allowed the U.S. to overcome a shortage of pure iron during World War II and produce millions of parts for field telephones and similar instruments. Among his other discoveries was tungsten carbide, a substance so hard that it has all but displaced diamonds as drill bits...
...years ago, an unheralded novel called Night Falls on the City became a surprise bestseller in England and America. The city was Vienna during its long eclipse from the Anschluss to the Russian occupation in 1945. The book's scenes shifted with enough suspense to satisfy Dickens himself; its characters were successful artists, intellectuals, politicians. Yet much of the novel's appeal came from Sarah Gainham's portrait of the city itself and a settled, civilized society slowly being corrupted, within and without, by the poisonous fear and protective selfishness unleashed by the Nazi presence...