Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambassador told reporters that Hitler's annexation of Austria had settled all European troubles for the present. "Whether or not Italy wanted Austria years ago is past history: we can't go back now," he said...
...Georges Bonnet by special plane for Croydon. There he was met by elegant British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax whose cadaverous visage for once beamed. This same Halifax few months ago visited and conferred at length with Hitler, afterwards was reported by close friends shocked and grieved when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street last week impressed London correspondents as of historic moment. They drew the United Kingdom and the French Republic into what United Press's Webb Miller...
Jewish real estate and money holdings in Germany are estimated at $2.000,000,000, in German Austria at $800,000,000. The sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany...
Responsible for the elimination of Jewish economic life in Austria will be hard-hitting Josef Bürckel, a non-Austrian, known for his success in taming Catholics in the Saar-Palatinate. Last week Herr Bürckel received from Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Austria which reduce the position of Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Governor of Austria who paved the way for Hitler's triumph there, to that of a subordinate...
...much as his buoyant Storm Troopers, the Nazi organ, believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Führer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black-trousered Bund officers, Fuhrer Kuhn brought back a message from German Jews to American Jews. "I talked with lots and lots of Jews in Germany," Kuhn said, "and they all told me this: 'Tell the Jews in America to let us alone...