10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War
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The Austrian delegation to Paris was led by the Social Democrat minister Karl Renner who had little choice but to agree to the redrawing of national borders that saw the emergence of several independent nations and the reduction of Austrian ...
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