The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

This led General Walter Bedell Smith to snap: "Well in any case you are going to be shot". Iglau was an important town in Moravia one of the Czech provinces of Austro-Hungarian Empire in which an increasing competition between Germans and Czechs was going on. Following the invasion of Poland Seyss-Inquart became administrative chief for Southern Poland but did not take up that post before the General Government was created in which he became a deputy to the Governor General Hans Frank.

During World War II he served the Third Reich in the General Government of occupied Poland and as Reichskommissar in the Netherlands. At the Nuremberg Trials he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. [About this sound] Arthur Seyss-Inquart (help·info) (in German: Seyß-Inquart) (22 July 1892 – 16 October 1946) was an Austrian National Socialist official who served as Chancellor of Austria for two days – 11–13 March 1938 – before the Anschluss that merged Austria with Nazi Germany.