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...most Americans, the name Austria conjures up pleasant visions of ski weeks at Innsbruck, Vienna Sachertorte, Salzburg's music. Few people now recall two important events in that country that led up to World War II and betrayed a darker side of the Austrian character. One was the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by local Nazis in 1934, part of a coup that failed. The other, which so dramatically succeeded, was the Anschluss of 1938, when the German army annexed Austria unopposed...
...Maass finds it hard to capture the personality of his diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) "Milli-Metternich." But he shows effectively how Dollfuss forced his "Christian corporate state" too suddenly into a totalitarian mold, basing his power on a single official party while socialists plotted on the left and Austrian Nazis on the right. Maass also demonstrates the appalling lack of official reaction when the government learned of the plot to overthrow it in July 1934. Austria had become such a "nation of informers," he says, that true warnings could hardly be distinguished from false...
...conditions were decidedly different, as German Journalists Wagner and Tomkowitz show in their crisp, well-researched narrative of the seven-day Anschluss. The Germans had a growing war machine and Austrian Nazis in key places of power in the country. Increasingly menaced by Hitler, Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, who had succeeded Dollfuss, announced on March 9 that a plebiscite, four days later, would decide whether Austria would keep its independence. A day before the vote could take place German troops were all over Austria. On the 14th, Hitler arrived in Vienna, the city's church bells pealing...
...guide accompanied the family to the border clearing, a muddy field. He told them that the bridge located across the clearing lay in Austrian territory. "We just walked across toward the bridge," Tatrallyay recalled. "My mother lost a shoe containing old gold coins...
Skiing's super-schusser, Karl Schranz, 33, who was barred from skiing with the Austrian team in the Sapporo Olympics on the grounds that he had repeatedly broken the amateur regulations, has announced that he is going to give up Alpine racing, though he is not yet ready to become a full-fledged professional. "I should like to end my career in dignity, and not as an outlaw of international sports politics," said Schranz, who in 18 years of competition has won three world championships, two World Cups, eleven Austrian championships and eight firsts in the famed Arlberg-Kandahar...