Raynors HCA 2018-10
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SCHUSCHNIGG, Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg 1897-1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Although Schuschnigg accepted that Austria was a "German state" and that Austrians were Germans, he was strongly opposed to Hitler's ambitions to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent. When Schuschnigg's efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office. After the invasion by Nazi Germany he was arrested, kept in solitary confinement and eventually interned in various concentration camps. He was liberated in 1945 by the advancing United States Army and spent most of the rest of his life in academia in the United States. Cover Signed “Kurt Schuschnigg St. Louis April 1952” on a “Freedom From the Evils of German Tyranny for the Kindly People of Austria” cover, with postmark Nov. 23, 1943. Fine condition.
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