Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one Rintelen. All Austria knows that last year Chancellor Dollfuss bought off potent pro-Nazi Dr. Anton Rintelen, the uncrowned "King Anton" of the Austrian province of Styria, by the fat plum of making him Ambassador at Rome. The stark, one-sentence radio announcement was seemingly intended to convey to Austria that a Nazi Putsch headed by "King Anton" had succeeded. When a radio actor found a revolver and started shooting, a cool Nazi hurled a hand grenade, blew him to blazes. Meanwhile back at the Ballhaus ten pistol-brandishing Nazis had burst down the last white...
...animal die," growled a Nazi. Others roughly picked up bleeding Dollfuss, dumped him on a divan...
...threw a barbed wire entanglement and a cordon of troops around the Ballhaus, retired within and hammered out a compromise which did all present much credit. Prince von Starhemberg agreed with President Miklas that Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet." Their pledge to carry on the Dollfuss tradition bound them, they felt, to pick a new Chancellor from his Catholic party and just after midnight they chose Dr. Schuschnigg, a seasoned lawyer-politician and, like Prince von Starhemberg a monarchist...
...President Miklas announced the following new Cabinet, largely a revamping of Dollfuss...
First business of the day was to get a court martial busy trying the Dollfuss assassins. One ex-Sergeant Otto Planetta confessed to shooting the Chancellor. Said he: "Someone jogged my arm and the gun discharged. I then noticed what seemed to be only a shadow fall to the floor...