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Schuschnigg's privileged position within the concentration camp system allowed him to keep a diary and to write letters which were smuggled out to family..
Kurt Schuschnigg
Chancellor of Austria from to
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg[a] (German:[ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December – 18 November ) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the Anschluss with Nazi Germany.
Although Schuschnigg considered Austria a "German state" and Austrians to be Germans, he was strongly opposed to Adolf Hitler's goal to absorb Austria into the Third Reich and wished for it to remain independent.[1]
When Schuschnigg's efforts to keep Austria independent had failed, he resigned his office.
After the Anschluss he was arrested, kept in solitary confinement, and eventually interned in various concentration camps. He was liberated in by the advancing United States Army and spent most of the rest of his life in academia in the United States.[2] Schuschnigg gained American citizenship in