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Schuschnigg

American  
[shoosh-nik] / ˈʃʊʃ nɪk /

noun

  1. Kurt von (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.


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Prisoner Schuschnigg is in a "depressed state," the police admitted, but he will be tried in a few months before a special court on the charge of violating the Austrian Constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Chancellor Schuschnigg reached London this week Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, as he always does, turned the visiting political lion over to Lord & Lady Londonderry for a thoroughgoing banquet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schuschnigg was kept in a single room at police headquarters and assigned to cleaning toilets for 17 months, then shipped to Dachau.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shattered, Dr. Schuschnigg departed, carrying back to Vienna a 72-hour ultimatum, to which Austria's President Wilhelm Miklas, capitulated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Von Ribbentrop informed Eden and Chamberlain that Hitler intended to summon Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, and demand that Austria rearrange her cabinet, take in Dr. Seyss-Inquart and release imprisoned Nazis.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. Spivak

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