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
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"
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
Kurt Schuschnigg
…to the Austrian Nazis. The terms of the agreement, presented to Schuschnigg for immediate endorsement, stipulated the appointment of Nazi sympathiser Arthur Seyss-Inquart as minister of security, which controlled the police. Another pro-Nazi, Dr. Hans Fischböck, was to be named as minister of finance to prepare for…
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)