- Headline
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Hitler Wins
- Publication Date
- Saturday, March 12, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- 8
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- Under threat of an invasion of his country by German troops, Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg resigned his office yesterday. So doing, he gave up his fight for "a free and German, independent and social, Christian and united Austria."
Henceforth Austria will be a German satellite. Hitler has won. Austria is his in fact, though the forms of independence may be allowed to stand.
Schuschnigg went down with his colors flying. In the statement explaining his resignation he insisted that the question of the ability of his government to maintain order was not involved. He was forced to give in to avoid invasion and bloodshed. "We yield to violence," he said.
Thus, though he lost the struggle to maintain Austrian freedom, he has made it clear that he surrendered only to compulsion. He has imposed on Germany, and on Hitler, the responsibility for destroying Austrian independence. The world must realize that the Austrian people were given no alternative.
No matter what explanations are made in behalf of Germany, Schuschnigg's brave fight to prevent her from imposing her will on Austria will forever condemn Germany and her leaders. Right played no part worth mentioning in the drama of the last few days. Might decided the issue.
One fact emerges. That is that, in dealing with Hitler's Germany, might alone counts. Arguments over principles or pledges are of no avail. Only by meeting threat of force with threat of force can any nation influence the course of the German Fuehrer. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Steven B.
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Bibliography
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Fuchs, Martin. Showdown in Vienna: The Death of Austria. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1939.
Low, Alfred. The Anschluss Movement, 1931-1938, and the Great Powers. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1985.
Wagner, Dieter. Anschluss: The Week Hitler Seized Vienna. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971.
Wimmer, Adi. Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
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