February 11

  • HITLER, AUSTRIAN HEAD TO CONFER

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Salzburg, Austria • February 11, 1938 On this date in 1938 Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusch­nigg arrived in Salz­burg for a quick trip over the German border to confer with Adolf Hitler at his Bava­rian Alps resi­dence above Berchtes­gaden, the Berg­hof. An Austrian native who had served as a lance cor­po­ral in the Bava­rian Army in…

  • HITLER, AUSTRIAN HEAD TO CONFER

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 4 minutes

    Salzburg, Austria · February 11, 1938 On this date in 1938 Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusch­nigg arrived in Salzburg for a quick trip over the German border to confer with Adolf Hitler at his Bava­rian Alps resi­dence, the Berg­hof. An Aus­trian native, Hitler had been granted Ger­man citizen­ship in 1932. The following Janu­ary the Nazi Party…