Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Linz, Austria, hundreds of witnesses were found who had seen a plane from Germany swoop down and drop leaflets containing Nazi threats against the Austrian Government of small, defiant Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
Against Austria's Nazi terror the Austrian Government struck back. Nazis to the number of 1,142 were arrested, 15 of them, German liaison officers directly responsible to Adolf Hitler, were expelled, 37 others were charged with high treason, the rest were cooled in jail for a couple of clays, then released...
Under orders from Munich and Berlin, Austrian Nazis went to work last week. Attempts were made to assassinate at least ten high Austrian officials. Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk...
Habicht v. Wasserback. As a member of the Austrian Parliament the Chief Austrian Nazi, Alfred Frauenfeld, was immune to arrest. Not so Handsome Adolf's personal liaison officer in Vienna, Theodor Habicht. Weeks ago Chancellor Hitler tried to make Herr Habicht immune from arrest by appointing him German Legation Press Attache in Vienna, but the Austrian Government refused him diplomatic immunity. Last week he was routed out of bed at six in the morning. Police seized numbers of incriminating documents...
Berlin replied to this with typical Nazi bumbling. Press attache of the Austrian legation in Berlin was a Dr. Erwin Wasserback. Dr. Wasserback's position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...