Word: schuschnigg
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...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...
After 13 years of Dollfuss, Schuschnigg and Hitler, Anschluss, war and defeat, a record turnout of about 3,500,000 Austrian voters had their say last week in a free election, for a change. The Austrian voters said, decisively, that they did not like Communism. In the zone occupied by the Red Army they said it stronger than anywhere else...
...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
Said the Führer: "I just wanted to frighten Schuschnigg...
...people, Austria's betrayed and long imprisoned ex-Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg also came to the German people's defense. Said he: "I am convinced that the great majority of the German people hated war. ... I believe Hitler caused the war, and Hitler alone...