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| 1934 | Dollfuss, Engelbert |  |
| 25th July Vienna Assassinated after opposing anschluss with Germany |
| 1938 | Innitzer, Theodor | |
| 12th Feb Vienna Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna meets with Hitler and then directs all Catholic clergy and laity to "unconditionally support the great Germany.index.html title="History of German">German State and the Fuhrer" |
| 1938 | Schuschnigg, Kurt von | |
| 12th Feb Vienna Miklas refuses to honor Hitler's ultimatum but capitulates under threat of invasion |
| Mar Within days of the Anschluss squads of Nazis and Austrian museum personnel empty the Viennese palaces of the Rothschild brothers, Alphonse and Louis |
| 9th Mar Vienna Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence |
| 11th Mar Vienna Forced to drop the plebiscite on union with Germany |
| 11th Mar Salzburg Germany closes the border at Salzburg |
| 11th Mar Vienna Hitler threatens to invade Austria |
| 11th Mar Vienna Rail traffic between is halted & Germany.index.html title="History of German">German troops are massed on the frontier |
| 12th Mar Germany invades Austria after the Austrian Nazi Party invite Germany.index.html title="History of German">German troops to march in and the union becomes the Anschluss |
| 12th Mar Belvedere Held prisoner by the Nazis in his villa in the grounds of Belvedere castle, 1938-1945 |
| 12th Mar The Nazis take over Austria and expel all Jews and other political opponents from the universities |
| 1938 | Seyss-Inquart, Arthur | |
| 12th Mar Linz Hitler voids Article 88 of the treaty of St Germain for Austria's independence |
