It has been sixty years since the Anschluss and yet, the question why the Austrian army did not provide some form of resistance is still pondered. This thesis examines the developments of the Austrian Army during the interwar period and focuses on the defence plans compiled by the Austrian Chief of the General Staff, Field Marshall Alfred Jansa. From the moment he assumed his position in the Federal Ministry of Defence, Jansa set out to create an Army capable of defending its borders against Nazi Germany. As long as he was Chief of the General Staff, he promised that any German attack would meet with Austrian military resistance. / This thesis considers an aspect of Austrian History, which English-language scholarship has largely neglected. This thesis provides a critical evaluation of the preparedness of the Austrian Army and the feasibility of resistance in March 1938.

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Vorzustellen ist ein kurioses Werk aus der Kartensammlung der SLUB, das in bibliophilen Kreisen nicht ganz unbekannt ist: In einer pittoresken „Karte des Bücherlandes“ stellte der Münchner Graphiker und Illustrator Alphons Woelfle (1884 –1951) 1938 das deutsche Buch- und Verlagswesen dar, in barocker Manier mit Kartusche, Allegorie und antiken Lettern. Schon 1941 neu aufgelegt, erlebte die ursprünglich handkolorierte Lithographie auf Büttenpapier bis heute zahlreiche Nachdrucke, sogar im Postkartenformat: Dabei misst das Blatt im Original 40 mal 29 cm.

During the 1930s, the Republic of Czechoslovakia endeavored to construct a system of modern fortifications along its frontiers to protect the Republic from German and Hungarian aggression and from external Versailles revisionism. Czechoslovakia's fortifications have been greatly misrepresented through comparison with the Maginot Line. By utilizing extant German military reports, this thesis demonstrates that Czechoslovakia's fortifications were incomplete and were much weaker than the Maginot Line at the time of the Munich Crisis in 1938. The German threat of war against Czechoslovakia was very real in 1938 and Germany would have penetrated most of the fortifications and defeated Czechoslovakia quickly had a German-Czech war occurred in 1938.

Vorzustellen ist ein kurioses Werk aus der Kartensammlung der SLUB, das in bibliophilen Kreisen nicht ganz unbekannt ist: In einer pittoresken „Karte des Bücherlandes“ stellte der Münchner Graphiker und Illustrator Alphons Woelfle (1884 –1951) 1938 das deutsche Buch- und Verlagswesen dar, in barocker Manier mit Kartusche, Allegorie und antiken Lettern. Schon 1941 neu aufgelegt, erlebte die ursprünglich handkolorierte Lithographie auf Büttenpapier bis heute zahlreiche Nachdrucke, sogar im Postkartenformat: Dabei misst das Blatt im Original 40 mal 29 cm.