Fatherland Front (Austria)
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The Fatherland Front was the ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria. It claimed to be a nonpartisan movement, and aimed to unite all the people of Austria, overcoming political
Fatherland Front rally, 1936
Truck with supporters of Schuschnigg (pictured on the posters) campaigning for the independence of Austria, March 1938 (shortly before the Anschluss)
Kurt Schuschnigg
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Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg was a Slovene-Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until
Fatherland Front (Austria)
…to join Germany. Chancellor Dollfuss was assassinated by the Nazis in July 1934. He was succeeded as leader of the VF and Chancellor of Austria by Kurt Schuschnigg, who ruled until the invigorated Nazis forced him to resign on 11 March 1938. Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany the next day. The Fatherland Front…
Schuschnigg in 1936
Schuschnigg, 1923
Chancellor Schuschnigg (right) with his state secretary Guido Schmidt and the Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano, 1936
Anti-Anschluss posters often depicted Schuschnigg's face, accompanied by "Österreich"