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...stormy visit with Adolf Hitler. Sofia and Berlin denied there had been a visit. But no one could forget other men who had left the Führer's presence the worse for wear. At Berchtesgaden in 1938, just before the annexation of Austria, stubborn Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg had been shattered by hysterics and threats...
...ballyhooing Pétain would not win over the French people as long as their country was ground under the Nazi boot. He knew that all France's workers could not sate Hitler's rapacious appetite. If Hitler won, Laval would probably disappear, like Austria's Schuschnigg, in favor of a German Gauleiter. If the Allies won, Laval could expect to be hanged at least, possibly drawn & quartered by Frenchmen...
...matter where she was employed, any plowboy might have fathered Hitler's grandmother's son. But Thyssen says that Hitler's spies told him of the existence of the document, that it was probably a factor in Dollfuss' assassination, that Hitler later wrested it from Schuschnigg. Thyssen also heard that a copy of it was "in the hands of the British Secret Service...
...novel. . . ." Three days later he made another jotting: "Trouble in Spain. . . ." Before the "trouble in Spain" was over, Shirer had finished his novel, changed jobs (from Universal to Columbia Broadcasting System), moved to Vienna. There he made another casual entry in his diary: "Much tension here this Sabbath. Schuschnigg has had a secret meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden. ..." Next thing Shirer knew the Nazis were in Vienna...
...Thyssen group coughed up Alpine Montangesell-schaft A. G., No.1 Austrian steel company. In exchange, the Thyssen group got shares in a synthetic oil plant. In charge of his Austrian properties Göring put Guido Schmidt, who as Austrian Foreign Minister had made reservations for Kurt von Schuschnigg in the Hotel Metropole, his post-Anschluss prison. Other Göring acquisitions...