Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician and convicted war criminal who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss. His positions in Nazi Germany included de
Seyss-Inquart c. 1940s
Seyss-Inquart in 1925
Seyss-Inquart with Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner and Bormann in Vienna, in 1938
Seyss-Inquart in The Hague (1940)
Austria within Nazi Germany
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In an event known as the Anschluss, Austria ceased to be an independent country and was incorporated into Nazi Germany from 13 March 1938 until 27 April 1945, when Allied-occupied Austria declared its
Soldiers of the Austrian Federal Army in Vienna in February 1934
Austrian troops taking position in February 1934
Adolf Hitler announcing the Anschluss on 15 March 1938
Thousands of Austrians gathering to hear Hitler's proclamation of the Anschluss