Schuschnigg thinks he can protect Austria from German invasion by not angering Hitler. You can’t appease a madman.” Starhemberg snorted back. “All this cooperation that he’s planning with Hitler will backfire. It just gives Hitler time to prepare for an Austrian invasion while we sit idly by, politely abiding with the Treaty of Saint-Germain by keeping our troops to an emasculated thirty thousand.” “Why can’t Schuschnigg see that the only thing that stopped Hitler in the putsch was Italian troops?
