!!!Volkspolitisches Referat

Volkspolitisches Referat, political organisation founded on 17 June, 
1937 within the framework of the  Fatherland Front. The organisation, 
headed by W. Pembauer, operated from Innsbruck and sought to bring the 
"strongly nationally-minded", i. e the opposition, closer to 
the Fatherland Front. From among its members, the lawyer A.  
Seyss-Inquart was appointed to the "Staatsrat" (federal 
council of state) in order to "appease national circles". 
Following the conclusion of the "Berchtesgaden Agreement" on 
12 February, 1938, the integration of National Socialists into the 
organisation (the Hitler Youth became part of the Jungvolk, the Storm 
Troopers (SA) were accepted as members of gymnastics associations) 
marked the end of the resistance on the part of the Corporate State 
against National Socialism and enabled Nazis to gain control over 
state institutions through which they were able to assert considerable 
power.

!Literature
W. Rosar, Deutsche Gemeinschaft, Seyss-Inquart und der 
Anschluss, 1971; Anschluss, symposium Vienna 14/15 March, 1978, in: 
Veroeffentlichungen des T.-Koerner-Stiftungsfonds und des 
L.-Kunschak-Preises zur Erforschung der Geschichte Oesterr. der Jahre 
1918-38, vol. 7, 1981.


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