Word: inquart
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...clock. Göring (to Austria's leading Nazi, Arthur Seyss-Inquart): "Tell the Federal President that if [our conditions] are not accepted immediately, German troops . . . will march...
...clock. Göring (to Germany's special envoy Wilhelm Keppler in Vienna, after Schuschnigg had finally resigned): "The following telegram should be sent here by Seyss-Inquart. Take notes: 'The [new] Austrian Government . . . considers it its duty to establish peace and order. . . . For this purpose it asks the German Government to send German troops...
...Ribbentrop, he said next day: "Seyss-Inquart asked us expressly, by phone as well as by telegram, to send troops. . . . The weather is wonderful here. A blue sky. I am sitting on my balcony. . . . The birds are twittering...
...ring's ample belly shook with laughter as the testimony recalled the scenes. Most of the other defendants joined in. But Austrian Seyss-Inquart looked pained...
...were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than...