Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...
...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...
Against the German Nazi racket across the border. Austria's little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss last week stoutly turned his bottle-shaped back, tried to stuff his ears. A special Hitler propagandist had come to Austria: Bavarian Minister of Justice Hans Frank, with two colleagues. When the three stepped from their plane last fortnight on a Vienna landing field, a police official told them they were "not very desirable." Nevertheless, Dollfuss permitted them to speak non-politically to 30,000 Austrian Nazis at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Vienna from the Turks.* The audience soon...
This decree not only tied all power to Berlin but it cut short the hope of Bavarian and Saxon royalists to re-establish their own dynasties by electing the Princes statthalters...
...Bavarian Populists...