When the German military marched into deeply Catholic Austria onMarch 12, 1938, Austrians overwhelmingly welcomed them. The two governments became one a day later in an action called Anschluss. Richard Kapella, a member of Austria’s Catholic majority, was born to landed gentry at the end of the 19th century. A physician and full colonel in the Austrian Army, Kapella commanded all the military hospitals in the Vienna District. On March 13, he f…
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