Engelbert Dollfuss25 July 1934
Assassinated after opposing anschluss with Germany
Austria · Government / Government of Austria. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Assassinated after opposing anschluss with Germany
Miklas refuses to honor Hitler's ultimatum but capitulates under threat of invasion
Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence
Germany closes the border at Salzburg
Rail traffic between is halted & German troops are massed on the frontier. Hitler threatens to invade Austria. Forced to drop the plebiscite on union with Germany
The Nazis take over Austria and expel all Jews and other political opponents from the universities. Germany invades Austria after the Austrian Nazi Party invite German troops to march in and the union becomes the Anschluss
Held prisoner by the Nazis in his villa in the grounds of Belvedere castle, 1938-1945
Hitler voids Article 88 of the Treaty of St Germain for Austrias independence
Within days of the Anschluss squads of Nazis and Austrian museum personnel empty the Viennese palaces of the Rothschild brothers, Alphonse and Louis
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