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

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

As a result of these precautions the arriving Fascist Dictator, be spectacled and intensely pious Austrian Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, never pulled in at the Gare de I'Est at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Schuschnigg tried to defend his regime by announcing a plebiscite in four days, on March 13, to decide whether Austrians wanted "a free, independent, social, Christian and united Austria."

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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