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Meantime intrepid Herr Schuschnigg himself presided at a conference of Austrian police authorities. Present was Interior Minister Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the only Nazi yet forced by the Führer into the Austrian Cabinet. Silent, embarrassed, sat Dr. Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor Schuschnigg ordered the police of Austria to continue the bans against: shouting "Heil Hitler!," appearing in brownshirt Nazi uniform, or holding any sort of political meeting in Austria except those of his Fatherland Front (to which Nazis are now admitted...
Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Five others were Nazi sympathizers but not Nazi Party members: the Ministers of Finance, Justice, Labor, Industry, and one, Without Portfolio...
...Seyss-Inquart to Hitler. The first act of the new Minister of Interior was to rush from Vienna to Berlin. There Dr. Seyss-Inquart conferred with Economic Four-Year Plan Chief Goring, the No. 2 Nazi. That night, Dictator Hitler asked a number of prominent German industrialists to meet Dr. Seyss-Inquart at dinner...
...Viennese journalists who bustled about Minister of Interior Seyss-Inquart on his return from Berlin, he said: "Because there have been so many misunderstandings. I wish you to say to the whole world that I am no Trojan horse. I do not want the Fatherland Front to become a Nazi Party. I believe in the view that Austria must be an independent, Christian Austria-nothing else but that. Austria will continue on her destined course. No further changes are foreseen now in Austria...
Unless this whole statement was a tissue of deliberate lies. Dr. Seyss-Inquart had thus brought back from his conference with Herr Hitler very good news for Austrian Jews, Austrian Catholics and all 100% Austrians. After all, Hitler was born an Austrian, is an Austrian blood & bone. Since the Austrians are easygoing, fun-loving people, and Hitler knows it, it seemed likely that a ruthless, violent Prussian-style Nazification might not be forced on Adolf Hitler's native people...