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- the agreement was that the Nazi's would support Schuschnigg if he gave Nazi's key positions in the Austrian government
- Dolfuss's replacement, Schuschnigg: "I have made a deal with the Nazi's due to the death of Dolfuss"
- January 1938, Austrian Nazi party's headquarters was raided by police and plans to overthrow Schuschnigg were discovered as well as plans against the government.
- Schuschnigg met with Hitler in Hitler's mountain retreat and Hitler brought 3 generals to intimidate Schuschnigg. They appointed a Nazi solicitor as minister for the interior giving full power over the Austrian police.
- agreed
- Schuschnigg knew that Hitler wanted to claim that Austria supported Anschluss so he held a plebiscite to allow Austrian people to vote on the matter and if people voted against Anschluss then Hitler would lose his excuse to invade
- Nazi's became ministers of finance and war and Schuschnigg had to lift restrictions on the Nazi party in Austria and release Nazi's from prison. Hitler said that Schuschnigg had to sign the agreement and make the changes to Austria within 3 days or he would invade.
- agreed
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