Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining junketing Herbert Hoover, felt obliged to grant. Then again CRUNCH!-the Dictator sent by airplane his ultimatum that the last Chancellor of Austria (that is, of independent...
...Friday, Dr. Schuschnigg went on the air so hurriedly that he was not even introduced. Who knew when Nazi gangs might seize the Austrian Federal Radio? Listeners could only tell by his voice and the context that it was their Chancellor speaking...
...Because we are unwilling, even in this terrible situation, to permit at any price the shedding of streams of German blood,* we have ordered Austria's armed forces to withdraw without resistance, in the event that an invasion is carried out. . . . And so I take leave of the Austrian people with a German word of farewell which I utter from the depths of my heart: Gott schuetze Oesterreich [GOD PROTECT AUSTRIA...
...Schuschnigg's "goodby" meant that he resigned as Chancellor. Just before midnight the Austrian Federal Radio capitulated by broadcasting the German Nazi Horst Wessel song. Horst Wessel, author of the song, was a Nazi who, before his death (in a 1930 brawl with Communists), incontestably earned his living soliciting customers for Berlin strumpets. The degradation of the Austria of Mozart, of Schubert and of Schuschnigg was thus total. Nazi Storm Troops shortly took Schuschnigg to an Austrian home where he was held in "protective custody...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...