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Kurt Schuschnigg
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The situation changed visibly when sentimental reasons and long-term political aims gave way to a stern, ruthless nationalist ideology which would brook no compromise.
— p. 39
Kurt Schuschnigg
Chancellor of Austria (1897-1977)
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Lived 1897–1977, aged 80United States
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Updated 2026-06-11
The Austrian chancellor who tried to hold the line against Hitler in 1938, insisting his country stay independent even as the Third Reich closed in — then spent years in Nazi concentration camps after the Anschluss erased the border he'd fought to keep.
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Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg became Chancellor of Austria in 1934 after his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated. He considered Austria a German state and Austrians to be Germans, but stood firmly against Adolf Hitler's drive to absorb the country into the Third Reich. When his efforts to preserve independence collapsed in 1938, he resigned. The Nazis arrested him after the Anschluss, held him in solitary confinement, and interned him in concentration camps until the United States Army liberated him in 1945. He left Europe for American academia, gained U.S. citizenship in…
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Kurt Schuschnigg
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Austria had become the second German state in fact, because there German culture, now homeless in its old home, found a new country.
— p. 44
Kurt Schuschnigg
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People were not all fascists on one side and bolshevists on the other.
— p. 53
Kurt Schuschnigg
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As in other European countries there were anti-semitic tendencies in pre-Hitler Austria too.
— p. 62
Kurt Schuschnigg
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There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from Nazism.
— "Morning Telegraph" of London (January 5, 1938), reprinted in "Let the Record Speak", Dorothy Thompson, Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin
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