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Austria [r]: Federal republic in central Europe (population c. 8.2 million; capital Vienna), bordered to the north by Germany and the Czech Republic; to the south by Italy and Slovenia; to the west by Switzerland and Liechtenstein; and to the east by Hungary and Slovakia. ^[e]
Pan-German nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]
Kurt Schuschnigg [r]: Add brief definition or description

Artur Seyss-Inquart [r]: Add brief definition or description
Reinhard Heydrich [r]: First commander of the RSHA of the SS, then Nazi Protector of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination ^[e]
Mauthausen Concentration Camp [r]: A large system of concentration camps and subcamps in Austria; Mauthausen was the original camp; many deliberately killed but principally by starvation, overwork, beatings, and hurling into the rock quarry run by the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH ^[e]
Wilhelm Keppler [r]: State Secretary for Special Assignments, Reich Foreign Office (1939-1945); war materials expert and economic adviser to Adolf Hitler (1932-1938); defendant in Ministries Case (NMT) ^[e]
Benito Mussolini [r]: (1883-1945) The Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943; as part of the Axis alliance, he led his country into war against France and Britain in 1940, and against the United States in 1941. ^[e] Italy had agreed to protect Austria
Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution ^[e] Goering assured the Czechs, who might have intervened, that they faced no threat from Germany

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