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Anschluss 1938
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In February 1938 Schussnigg, Chancellor of Austria, bowed to pressure from Hitler and appointed Seyss-Inquart Minister of the Interior. The presence of a Nazi in the Austrian government gave subsequent events an air of legality. Seyss-Inquart replaced Schussnigg as Chancellor and, hours later, invited Hitler's troops to 'help restore order' in Austria, completing the Anschluss forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.
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Increasing pressure.
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"Why should we take a stand about someone pushing someone else when it's all so far away .. "
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Reprinted in Years of Wrath. p56. Published comment: After the abortive Putsch of 1934 in Austria and the murder of Chancellor Dollfuss, Hitler had undertaken not to support the Austrian Nazis. But in 1938 he ordered von Schuschnigg, Dollfuss' successor, to take five Nazi sympathisers into his Cabinet, to release political prisoners and to permit the Austrian Nazis legal activity European small countries realized that Hitler's Germany was ready to throw its weight about and that a new cumulative sequence of trouble was about to begin.
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Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT solo@solosyndication.com
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33 x 47cm
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black ink/blue crayon
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