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Speech welcoming Hitler's return to Austria and the union of Austria and Germany
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Nazi official, Austria, Poland, Netherlands)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892-1946)
- Born: 1892-07-22 (Stonařov)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Austria-Hungary; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Fatherland Front; Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Federal Chancellor of Austria (period: 1938-03-11 through 1938-03-13; replaced by: Anschluss; replaces: Kurt Schuschnigg); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-02; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Joachim von Ribbentrop); Reichskommissar; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Employer: Austrian Federal Government; Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Documents of German Politics (Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, serial)
Date: 12 March 1938
Literal Title: Dokumente der Deutschen Politik Grossdeutschland 1938 . . . Address of Bund Chancellor Dr. Seyss-Inquart from the balcony of the city hall at Linz on 12 March 1938.
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2485
Document Book No: Prosecution KK (Seyss-Inquart)
HLSL Item No.: 453241
Notes:The book of documents was published in 1939. Another copy of PS 2485 was presented for judicial notice on 29 November 1945; this copy was apparently not entered in the case against Seyss-Inquart.