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was made official on 24 February 1933. When the
Anschluss for which he had longed was completed in 1938 he returned to some prominence and sat as a member of the
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must be treated as a foreign race, suggested that
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concern in
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before settling into a position as a lawyer in Judenburg.
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The son of a wine merchant, Pfrimer studied law at the
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