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did you ever have the impression that his intentions included rather
merely an evolutionary development of the German-Austrian
relationship?
A. The defendant always worked for an evolutionary development
of the German-Austrian relationship, as above. This polici
' gained him the bitter enmity of the local Nazi kade~s who were
convinced that their abject of union with Germany could never be
attained by anything short of arms. Leopold complained to me of
the defendant's weakness in his dealings with_ S&usc,"Lnigg. rzorn
about the Autumn of 1936 - as soon as they saw that the defendant's
policy of appeasement was not leading to the total subjugation
of Austria as quickly as they had hoped - the Austrian Nazis
began intriguing in Berlin to get the defendant sacked, and succeeded
in doing so in February 1938 as soon as the aggressian
against Austria had been decided by Hitler.
Jan Gawronski
Jan Gawronski
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82, 86, % and 100
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Thiirauf, Neue Folge 48. - 50. und 54. Jahrgang (73.-75. bzw. 79. Band cler
ganzen Reihe), Miinchen 1933 his 1935 bzw. 1939
DOCUMENT PAPEN-5
das Dokument Papen-5 enthalt Ausziige aus: Entscheidungeu des Reicbsgerimts
in Zivilsschen, 138. Band (1933) Anhang: Entscheidungen des Staatsgerichtshofs,
Seite l*ff (PreuSen gegen Reich, Entscheidung vom 25. Oktober 1932)
DOCUMENTS PAPEN-10 and 37
Ausziige aus: Franz von Papen: Appell an das deutsche Gewissen, Reden zur
nationalen Revolution, Oldenburg 1933