!!!Juliabkommen 1936

Juliabkommen 1936, agreement between the Austrian government under 
Schuschnigg and the government of Nazi Germany under Hitler, signed on 
July 11, 1936, under pressure of the rapprochement between Fascist 
Italy and Nazi Germany, which had brought the Austrian corporate state 
into a position of isolation. In this agreement, Germany promised to 
respect Austrian sovereignty, not to interfere in Austria´s 
internal affairs, ("including the question of Austrian National 
Socialism") and to revoke the  Tausend-Mark-Sperre currency 
restriction. In return, Austria promised to grant amnesty to National 
Socialists who had been arrested, to follow a similar foreign policy 
to that of Germany, and to include two representatives of the 
nationalist opposition in the government. Consequently, Schuschnigg 
designated the committed German nationalist E.  Glaise-Horstenau as 
Minister without Portfolio and Guido  Schmidt, who had been 
instrumental in bringing the agreement to a conclusion, as State 
Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Austrian politics now entered on a 
course which was referred to as the "deutsche Weg" (pursuing the 
policy of a "German" state). As a result, the confrontational policy 
of the NSDAP, which was still illegal, was replaced by gradual 
infiltration of Austrian counter-intelligence.

!Literature
Das Juliabkommen von 1936, 1977.


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