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Prison elite : how Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg survived Nazi captivity /

"After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschnigg's privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and to write...

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Main Author: Rummel, Erika, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Schuschnigg, Kurt, > 1897-1977.
Statesmen > Austria > Biography.
Statesmen > Austria > Diaries.
Statesmen > Austria > Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German > Diaries.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German > Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps.
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Nazi concentration camps.
Statesmen.
Austria.
1939-1945
Biographies.
Diaries.
Personal correspondence.
Internment camps.
Statesmen > Correspondence.
Correspondence.
Summary:"After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschnigg's privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and to write letters which were smuggled out to family members."--

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Call Number: DB 98 .S3 R86 2021
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