Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician who helped bring Austria under German rule, governed occupied Netherlands as Reichskommissar, and was executed after conviction at the Nuremberg trials.

Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until 1945. Seyss-Inquart served Hitler’s expansionist regime and became Reichskommissar under his authority.
Reichskommissariat Niederlande: Reichskommissariat Niederlande was the German civil administration governing the occupied Netherlands from 1940 to 1945. Seyss-Inquart headed this occupation government as Reichskommissar.
Austrian Nazism: Austrian Nazism was the movement seeking to integrate Austria into a Nazi German state. Seyss-Inquart rose within this movement before the Anschluss.
Nuremberg trials: The Nuremberg trials were postwar proceedings that prosecuted leading Nazi officials for major crimes. Seyss-Inquart was tried and convicted in the International Military Tribunal’s first trial.
Kurt Schuschnigg: Kurt Schuschnigg was Austria’s chancellor from 1934 until the German annexation in 1938. Their political confrontation preceded the Anschluss and Schuschnigg’s removal.
Holocaust in the Netherlands: The Holocaust in the Netherlands was the persecution and murder of Dutch Jews under German occupation. Deportations and persecution unfolded under the occupation administration Seyss-Inquart led.
Anschluss: The Anschluss was Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in March 1938. Seyss-Inquart became Austria’s chancellor immediately before the annexation.
International Military Tribunal: The International Military Tribunal was the court established by the Allies to try leading Nazi officials at Nuremberg. It judged Seyss-Inquart and sentenced him to death.
Hermann Göring: Hermann Göring was a leading Nazi official who directed the Luftwaffe and held senior government posts. Göring pressured Austrian leaders during the crisis that brought Seyss-Inquart to power.
Dutch famine of 1944–1945: The Dutch famine of 1944–1945 was a severe wartime famine in the German-occupied western Netherlands. Occupation restrictions and the wartime blockade contributed to the crisis during his rule.

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