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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They burst into the Chancellery at Vienna, found the still-stained yellow sofa upon which Chancellor Dollfuss slowly bled to death after Nazi assassins had pumped him full of lead (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), draped it triumphantly last week with the Nazi swastika flag...
Orthodox Church. With no legal power to prevent its ratification, Orthodox Church followers (about half the population) proceeded to riot when the Lower House of Parliament ratified the concordat (TIME, Aug...
...involving many Austrian politicians since the War. So had Dollfuss, for that matter. Nobody thought of the Minister of Education and Justice as a future Austrian Chancellor-until he happened not to be with Dollfuss and most of the Cabinet on the day Nazi assassins captured the Chancellery (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). While they were murdering Dollfuss and figuring that German troops would do the rest, Benito Mussolini was bluffing down Adolf Hitler with his mobilization of Italian troops, and Minister of Education and Justice Kurt von Schuschnigg was coldly, efficiently acting as emergency Chancellor, rallying the troops and police...
...everyone confined for a political offense. There have been few political crimes in history more revolting than that of certain Austrian Nazis who, in 1934, disguised in Austrian uniforms, invaded the Chancellery in Vienna and shot in cold blood Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who lay groaning before he died (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). To Schuschnigg and Miklas, the decree was immoral in every sense of the word, but the President signed it. Out of Austrian jails soon walked 54 Nazis convicted in the Dollfuss assassination case. In all, the decree released 1,228 Nazis from Austrian prisons, 198 from prison camps...
...fumed in jail for four hours before her husband got her out. They started for Peiping with Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton lecturer, but Reischauer decided Shanghai would be safer. Two weeks later he was killed by a bomb in the International Settlement (TIME, Aug...