Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...Rome, therefore, Orator Mussolini last week appeared before the Italian Chamber, and two days later in Berlin Orator Hitler appeared before the Reichstag. Mussolini declared that at 12 o'clock on March 7 he categorically warned a person in Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg's confidence against attempting to hold the Austrian plebiscite which Dr. Schuschnigg announced to take place March 13, canceled on March 11. "This contraption will explode in your hands,'' II Duce claimed last week he told Chancellor Schuschnigg. The Italian Dictator went on to tell the Italian people that Austrians had not thanked...
Veteran Berlin correspondents declared they had never before seen Adolf Hitler and the 741 members of the German Reichstag in quite such an electric state of emotion as last week. For the first time since 1866 Austrian officials had their place with the Germans. Austria, now a German province, sent her Governor (not Chancellor) Arthur Seyss-Inquart to Berlin by air, dressed in the uniform of one of Dictator Hitler's Elite Guard. Austrian-born Herr Hitler was greeted by Reichstag President Göring with the words: "You conquered Austria not with bloody use of force but with...
Suicides. Jailed or jobless was every Jewish journalist as Nazis took over Austrian papers, filled them with glowing reports on the new Anschluss. Carefully kept from the populace was the news that a wave of suicides had swept over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike...
Nearly half of Vienna's 25-member Anglo-American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days...