Inspector Bronstein and the Anschluss: 1938

Vienna, March 1938. The Nazis are about to seize Austria, and the tottering regime of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg is trying to save the country through a hastily arranged referendum about Austrias independence. Just at this time Inspector David Bronstein is called to the scene of a crime. A high-ranking Nazi has been violently murdered. And while Bronstein is attempting to solve this murder and another one as well indications of an imminent annexation, an Anschluss, of Austria to the Third Reich are growing more and more clear. For Bronstein a double battle against time...With Inspector Bronstein and the Anschluss:1938, Pittler has completed the final volume in Pittlers Bronstein Pentalogy, depicting here with a wealth of atmosphere and nuance the last hours of Austria and once again mobilizing the protagonists of his saga about the First Austrian Republic.