Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churchman, the too-independent Army officer have with good reason dreaded his heavy hand-and often landed in one of Herr Himmler's concentration camps. Moreover, little neighboring countries have particular reason to fear him; the presence of 55 Führer Himmler's young men in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Lithuania, has invariably meant that the Nazi Reich was about to expand its borders...
Also missing from the League are of course, the U. S. which never joined, Japan which withdrew in 1933 over the China "incident"; Germany, which dropped out the same year over the question of rearmament; Italy, which resigned in 1937 over Ethiopia and sanctions; Austria, which was anschlussed; Czecho-Slovakia which was Muniched...
...Innsbruck, in old Austria, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the German Army, and Undersecretary for War General Alberto Pari-ani, Italy's chief of Army staff, conferred on "common military problems." Field Marshal Hermann Goring was in Italian Libya as the guest of Governor Air Marshal Italo Balbo. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, after a brief and none-too-cordial reception in Egypt, arrived at the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 45,000 Italian troops were reported as having landed. On the neighboring Dodecanese Islands, strongly fortified Ital...
...move also served to tighten the Fascist-Nazi pincers on Yugoslavia. That nation is now surrounded on three sides, with Nazi Austria on the north, Fascist Albania on the south, and an Italian sea, the Adriatic, on the west. To make the picture complete, dissatisfied little Bulgaria, most defeated of Germany's World War allies, lies on the east. When Britain hastily suggested that Yugoslavia join the anti-aggression pact there came only stony silence from Belgrade. The Yugoslav Government dared do nothing to offend its powerful neighbors...
...Arthur Seyss-Inquart is still, technically, provincial Governor of Austria, but is ranked by Josef Bürckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria, who has been given the job of Nazifying the gay Viennese. Seyss-Inquart's governorship is soon...