Ferdinand Marek is the defining figure in interwar Austrian-Czechoslovak relations, and his writings are invaluable sources to gauge the perspectives of crisis-riddled Austria on the highly industrialised First Czechoslovak Republic. After the disintegration of the Habsburg Empire, Marek was Austria’s first envoy in Prague, where he was charged with the establishment of an Austrian embassy. … Continue reading “Austria, the Nazis, and the Great Depression in Czechoslovakia”