Word: anschlussed
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...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...
Karajan is one of Austria's best skiers, and a man who likes fast cars and high living. He first crossed his rival's path back in the Nazi heyday. He was a dark and dapper little Austrian with relentless ambition, a Nazi before the Anschluss (Karajan's part-Jewish wife became one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans"). Goebbels backed Furtwängler; Goring backed Karajan. When Karajan became director of the Berlin State Opera, Furtwängler never got over it. And when Furtwängler was the first to be de-Nazified, Karajan...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 50, pre-Anschluss chancellor of Austria, won a job lecturing at St. Louis University...