Word: horstenau
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...ancient city gates were closed to prevent fleeing refugees from running into advancing Nazi columns. Then at dawn they came, the modern version of Alaric's Visigoths: grimy German warriors in swift, battle-stained tanks and armored reconnaissance motorcycles. They were Austrian soldiers led by General Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, famous quisling in the Schuschnigg Government. Hitler had once promised commiserating Edouard Daladier, "Oh, Daladier, you're going to get to know my Austrians. You're going to make their acquaintance." He was keeping that promise...
...Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer 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...
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