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...conditions were decidedly different, as German Journalists Wagner and Tomkowitz show in their crisp, well-researched narrative of the seven-day Anschluss. The Germans had a growing war machine and Austrian Nazis in key places of power in the country. Increasingly menaced by Hitler, Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, who had succeeded Dollfuss, announced on March 9 that a plebiscite, four days later, would decide whether Austria would keep its independence. A day before the vote could take place German troops were all over Austria. On the 14th, Hitler arrived in Vienna, the city's church bells pealing...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Agony of Austria," a recounting of the 1938 Anschluss, featuring an interview with Kurt von Schuschnigg, who was Austrian Chancellor when the Nazis annexed the country, now is a professor at St. Louis University...
...Taylor's view, it was always somebody else who put poor, passive Hitler in a mood to fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that...
Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood...
Died. Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, 56, pioneer Fascist, Vice Chancellor of Austria in the pre-World War II Dollfuss and Schuschnigg dictatorships, which he helped set up, organizer of the green-shirted Heimwehr, which wiped out Austria's one solid block of resistance against Naziism in a raid on the Socialist Party in Vienna in 1934; of a heart attack; in Schruns, Austria. Scion of an ancient Austrian family, Von Starhemberg backed the wrong Fascist, worked with Mussolini against the Anschluss, fled when Hitler took over in 1938, saw his 13 castles, hundreds of dwellings, mines...