Word: anschlussed
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...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...
Then, in 1938, the Reich was ready to lead Austria home. As the story of the Anschluss was retold in court, many a spectator in the press gallery-remembering the enthusiasm with which most Austrians had hailed Hitler's motorized legions, and the indifference with which most western statesmen had watched the annexation-wondered why this should now be considered a crime. As the story unfolded, they realized how the deceitful cynicism of beerhall Machiavellis had corrupted Austria into accepting annexation...
Figl had played a minor role in pre-Anschluss politics. Politically to the left of Dollfuss, he was never close to the inner circle of Dollfuss' Christian Social Party. A peasant-born agronomist, Figl was a director of the Catholic Bauernbund (farmer's association) of Lower Austria...
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...