The Austrofascism of Austria between 1934 and 1938 focused on the history of Austria and opposed the absorbing of Austria into the Third Reich (according to the belief that Austrians were "better Germans")[4] and the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg (1934–1938) called Austria the "better German state" but struggled to keep Austria independent. Nevertheless, German nationalists' desire for a unified nation-state incorporating all Germans into a Greater Germany persisted.