A Post WWII Nazi German book, The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex Chancellors account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler by Kurt Schuschnigg. Translated by Richard Barry. Published: New York, Atheneum, 1971. Signed, inscribed, and dated, inside. Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg, 1897 to 1977, was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Antiquarian Librarian Books And Albums For Collectors, World War II Historical Collectibles And Relics, Nazi German Militaria.