Kurt Schuschnigg

Chancellor of Austria (1897-1977) · United States · Politicians · Died at 79

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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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1977Died18 November 19771971“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.”In their wordsp. 39Read the whole statement

“Austria had become the second German state in fact, because there German culture, now homeless in its old home, found a new country.”In their wordsp. 44Read the whole statement

“People were not all fascists on one side and bolshevists on the other.”In their wordsp. 53Read the whole statement

“As in other European countries there were anti-semitic tendencies in pre-Hitler Austria too.”In their wordsp. 62Read the whole statement

1938“There is no question of ever accepting Nazi representatives in the Austrian cabinet. An absolute abyss separates Austria from Nazism.”In their words5 January 1938"Morning Telegraph" of London (January 5, 1938), reprinted in "Let the Record Speak", Dorothy Thompson, Boston: MA, Houghton MifflinRead the whole statement

1921“In the Vienna of the First Republic a tendency to anti-semtism was particularly marked in the years of economic upheaval, between 1921 and 1923. . .”In their wordsp. 63Read the whole statement

1897Born15 December 1897

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Gömbös cabinet and Kurt Schuschnigg 1934

Kurt Schuschnigg 1934 (cropped)

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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.
1971, p. 39, Own words
Austria had become the second German state in fact, because there German culture, now homeless in its old home, found a new country.
1971, p. 44, Own words
People were not all fascists on one side and bolshevists on the other.
1971, p. 53, Own words

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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 1956, and lived out his decades far from the border that vanished.

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