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French and Italian military staff discussed possible military cooperation involving a war with Germany should Hitler dare to attack Austria. Relations between Germany and Italy recovered due to Hitler's support of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, while other countries condemned the invasion and advocated sanctions against Italy.
Hitler was at first torn between going ahead with the invasion, or pulling off the border. Hitler realized that the German Army was not prepared to take on both the Austrians and the Italian Army. Hitler ordered the force to be pulled off the Austrian border. The German government stated that it had nothing to do with the revolt.
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943 (2000) online; Leitz, Christian. Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–1941: The Road to Global War (2004) Martin, Bernd. Japan and Germany in the Modern World (1995) Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2009) excerpt and text search; Michalka ...
9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, in Linz, Austria c. 6,000? Sylvester Stadler: May 8 May 8 Germany 6th SS Mountain Division Nord, in Austria c. 2,000 Franz Schreiber May 8 May 8 Germany 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, in Enns, Austria c. 10,000 Hugo Kraas: May 8 May 8 Made up the bulk of the I SS Panzer Corps: India
A flyer from the group of German-speakers who voted for staying in South Tyrol (Andreas Hofer Bund)The South Tyrol Option Agreement (German: Option in Südtirol; Italian: Opzioni in Alto Adige) was an agreement in effect between 1939 and 1943, when the native German and Ladin-speaking people in South Tyrol and several other municipalities of northern Italy, which had belonged to the Austrian ...
Initials on the Four-Power Pact, from Francesco Salata's Il patto Mussolini. The Four-Power Pact, also known as the Quadripartite Agreement, was an international treaty between the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Nazi Germany that was initialed on 7 June 1933 and signed on 15 July 1933 in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome.
Hitler's government reacted with harsh economic sanctions aimed at Austrian tourism. In February 1934, Dollfuss and his Fatherland Front emerged victorious in the three-day Austrian Civil War against the Social Democrats. He established Austria as a one-party state that was staunchly opposed to the Nazis and unification with Germany.
The Surrender at Caserta (Italian: Resa di Caserta, pronounced [ˈreːza di kaˈzɛrta]) of 29 April 1945 was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of German and Italian Fascist forces in Italy, ending the Italian Campaign of World War II. [1]