THE FREE AUSTRIAN MOVEMENT. The Case of Austria. London, The New Europe Publishing Co., Ltd., 1942.
8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. 32; apart from toning due to paper quality, rather well-preserved.
Extremely rare, almost unrecorded pro-Austrian anti-Nazi pamphlet. 'The Free Austrian Movement was an organization of Austrians in exile founded by Hans Rott in Toronto in 1940 and based in New York as of 1942. Rott had been a minister in the Austrian government under Schuschnigg before the annexation of Austria by Germany; he signs as President of the Free Austrian Movement. Somer signs as Executive Director, and Friebeisz as Vice-President of the movement' (From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1942, University of Pennsylvania Library, online).
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