Prison elite : how Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg survived Nazi captivity /

"After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, until his rescue by the Allies in 1945. Schuschnigg's privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rummel, Erika, 1942- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press [2021]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv1s5nxg5
Table of Contents:
  • 1. In isolation : living under the enemy's eye
  • 2. The Sachsenhausen household : living en famille
  • 3. The comfort of religion
  • 4. The consolation of books
  • 5. Music to his ears
  • 6. The use of wit
  • 7. Cherishing memories
  • 8. Schuschnigg's political reminiscences.