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...Nazi rebels were no geniuses. One coup leader, separated from his troops, wandered around in the July heat of Vienna "disguised" in an overcoat. But the government bumbling allowed the rebels access to the Ballhausplatz (the residence of Austria's Chancellor), where one of them, Otto Planetta, shot Dollfuss. Maass concedes Planetta may only have been "trigger-happy," but the conspirators completed the crime by refusing Dollfuss both a doctor and a priest. Because the Chancellor had sent his Cabinet away, the coup did not destroy the government. The plotters were executed. Germany was still too weak to intervene...
...simplicity of four centuries of Catholic peasant forebears with some of the acquired awareness (and tinsel knowledge) of Viennese sophisticates. In his well-tailored morning coat, he still looks the farmer, and he seems quite out of place as he sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place: he knows little of crafty diplomacy but has, in the words of a friend, the nerves of a draft horse...
After weeks of careful preparations, the Reds organized a strike of workers in eastern Austria's Russian-operated factories to protest against the government measure. Red army tanks blocked railways leading to the city. A mob of 10,000 gathered at the Ballhausplatz, seat of Austria's chancellory. Western soldiers were beaten up. Despite their small following (5% of the voters), the Communists found sympathizers among other workers who were bitter about the price boosts. Not even the Viennese police were notably enthusiastic in trying to quell the riots...
...democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed some more. The Ballhausplatz was jammed with cars all night. Lights blazed in the Chancellery windows till dawn. At 4 a. m. reporters and politicians learned Heaven's latest advice to Engelbert Dollfuss...
...last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...