a young man in the First World War, Schuschnigg should have read Gramsci instead of love stories—in which case, he might have come across the line: “When debating with an opponent, try to put yourself in his shoes.” But he had never put himself in anyone’s shoes; at most, he had tried on Dollfuss’s suit, after several years spent licking his boots. Put himself in someone else’s shoes? He had no idea what that meant. He’d never gotten into the shoes of the battered workers, or the jailed trade unionists, or the tortured democrats; so the last thing we needed now was for him to get into the
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