Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg Tonight Yielded to German threats by resigning his position, a few hours after Nazi rioting had forced abandonment of the “independence” plebiscite scheduled for Sunday.

Fresh proof that Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg’s assurances that Jews would be accorded equal treatment in Austria are meant only as a sop for public opinion abroad is seen in the renewal yesterday of ...

Eva and Rudolf, the chubby children of murdered Engelbert Dollfuss, still thought last week that their father was alive. Safe at the Italian beach resort of Riccione in the villa of Dictator Mussolini ...

PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political prisoners from an Alpine hotel that members of Hitler’s SS intended to barter ...

A German court ruled last Wednesday that a 99-year-old man who served as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp was unfit to stand trial for his role in the murder of thousands of inmates during the ...

• Kurt Schuschnigg, former Austrian fascist dictator, found refuge in St. Louis after defying Hitler and surviving multiple assassination attempts, teaching history at Saint Louis University. • Rising ...

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ST. LOUIS – The former fascist dictator of Austria lived in St. Louis for decades and considered it a second home. Kurt Schuschnigg rose to power through right-wing populism, defied Hitler, and ...

Toward the close of Keiron Pim’s new biography Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth, we’re told to imagine the great, complex Austrian writer in Saint-Sulpice, which he may or may not have visited.

HAT is Austria and who is she? . . . She is a miserable spittoon.’ Thus contemptuously did Mussolini, almost exactly ten years ago, refer to the tiny nation to his north which, periodically since the ...