Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shattered, Dr. Schuschnigg departed, carrying back to Vienna a 72-hour ultimatum, to which Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas, capitulated...
...this was a good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed to rush into action with the greatest haste, before Adolf Hitler was due to address the Reichstag. Dr. Schuschnigg is one of Europe's hardest, smartest, most devoutly pious and most able statesmen. So far from the Nazis having been such fools as to try to crack him by third...
Many, but not all the terms rearmed, re-mighty Germany was able to get Austria to accept, are deeply repugnant to Dr. Schuschnigg. On his return to .Vienna he earnestly discussed with President Miklas whether he could resign at once. The President asked Vienna Mayor Richard Schmitz if he were willing to become Chancellor. "No," replied Schmitz. So Dr. Schuschnigg carried...
Prisoners, Therefore at 11 p. m. that evening the Chancellor laid before the President for his signature the most repugnant decree. Effective at midnight, it opened the jails and prison camps of Austria, releasing everyone confined for a political offense. There have been few political crimes in history more revolting than that of certain Austrian Nazis who, in 1934, disguised in Austrian uniforms, invaded the Chancellery in Vienna and shot in cold blood Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who lay groaning before he died (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). To Schuschnigg and Miklas, the decree was immoral in every sense of the word...
...clear from this that Dictator Hitler aimed at the ultimate seizure of all power in Austria by obtaining first the Ministry of Interior which in Europe generally carries with it control of the police, who in turn can then make life easy for Nazi agitators and hard for their opponents. In 1930 this maneuver was used to give Nazis control of the state of Thuringia in Germany. After Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933 it was Minister of Interior Hermann Wilhelm Goring who, by control of the police, riveted Nazi control around the necks of 66,000,000 Germans, many...