Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria Bassett Richard
Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria Bassett Richard Dapper, dynamic, overarchingly ambitious, Guido Schmidt was Austria's youngest and most controversial Foreign Minister.…
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Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria Bassett Richard
Dapper, dynamic, overarchingly ambitious, Guido Schmidt was Austria's youngest and most controversial Foreign Minister. Accompanying the Austrian Chancellor to Berchtesgaden in February 1938, Schmidt alone kept his nerve and negotiated an agreement with Ribbentrop which neutralised many of Hitler's bullying demands. Corresponding secretly with G ring while betraying Axis secrets to Sir Robert Vansittart at the British Foreign Office, Schmidt ducked and weaved across a European landscape of increasing menace and treachery.
In a curious gesture of protection, G ring sent a plane to Vienna to rescue him from the wrath of the Austrian Nazis. When Hitler invaded Schmidt was one of the very few Austrian ministers to escape the clutches of the SS. This enigmatic move by Hitler's greatest of paladins came back to haunt Schmidt after the war when he was put on trial for high treason. Acquitted
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