Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow the Great Powers had taken thought for Austria, decreed her rebirth. Prospects for Austrians were brighter than at any time since the little Republic was proclaimed 25 years ago this week-Nov. 12, 1918. Beside the Danube, there was a quickening. Along Vienna's Ringstrasse and down the crowded Kärntnerstrasse impudent anti-Nazi slogans appeared. The Viennese smiled again and the burden of the bombed-out German guests from the north seemed lighter. There were new jokes and new decrees by Himmler, prescribing death for convicted jokesmiths...
...failed to provide a substitute anchor. With nearly nine-tenths of her territory gone and all of her old relations with the rest of the Danube Valley disrupted, easygoing Austria slipped forlornly into a coma, unable to live and forbidden to die. Decay set in where gaiety had been. Vienna with nearly 2,000,000 became an oversized head; the rest of Austria, with less than 5,000,000 where the old Empire had over 50,000,000, was the dwarfed and sickening body. Until the coming of Hitler, Austrians mostly believed that the forbidden Anschluss with Germany would...
When Hitler talked Anschluss, it still made a certain economic sense. But to most Austrians, union with the Nazis was worse than no union. For five years Austrians scurried over Europe, seeking support. They found none. Wistfully Radio Vienna played waltzes and the Viennese reminded each other of the difference be tween Berlin and Vienna: in Berlin, things might become serious, but they were never hopeless; in Vienna, things were often hopeless-but seldom serious...
Hitler kept his eye on his homeland. In February 1938, he sent for Chancellor Schuschnigg, ranted and demanded. Then, on March 12 at 5:40 in the morning, German troops crossed the frontier, drove without opposition on Vienna. A bemused Britain and a sick France chose to see nothing fatal in the rape...
...Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...