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    What if Engelbert Dolfuss, Kurt Schussnigg and their pals were weak-kneed, and lily-livered cowards - early Anschluss?

    I think what Hitler wanted in fall 1938 was *not* a war with Britain and France, instead he wanted a real war, but a private one, against Czechoslovakia, to get combat testing done and get a "real" victory and do some real extermination. From our point-of-view, the western intervention at...
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    What if Engelbert Dolfuss, Kurt Schussnigg and their pals were weak-kneed, and lily-livered cowards - early Anschluss?

    In real life, Austria's Engelbert Dolfuss was a reactionary Catholic Conservative son of a postman who was short in stature at 5 feet but tall in guts, ruthlessly suppressing his Socialist and Nazi opposition until he was assassinated in 1934. After he was assassinated by Nazis, the...
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