Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tormenting question dinned last week in the brain of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss: "Where will my wife and the children be safe...
...spunky little Dictator had just hurled a drastic ultimatum at his Nazi enemies. He gave them five days in which to hand over all their explosives to his government. After that anyone caught with such a thing in Austria faced sentence of Death, by decree of Engelbert Dollfuss. Well he knew that this decree invited instant bomb attacks on himself and family...
...Opponitz in Lower Austria, stopped every streetcar in Vienna for an hour until another power station could be hooked up to serve the capital. Minor bombs were popping all over Austria. To the railway station sped Chancellor, frau and children. Their train snorted toward Italy. At the frontier Chancellor Dollfuss, a pious believer in Providence, got off and prepared to go back to Vienna...
Close-lipped Chancellor Dollfuss remained grimly silent but his official Wiener Zeitung roundly declared: "No reasonable observer of German events believes in the official version that Captain Roehm and his accomplices were just about to launch an armed revolt. It is unthinkable that an experienced soldier like Captain Roehm would spend the last hours before the outbreak of a revolt indulging in orgies in an obscure villa without even guarding its doors...
...implication Chancellor Dollfuss' organ charged Chancellor Hitler with the supreme cowardice of nabbing men in their beds and having them shot on suspicion without possessing tangible evidence that they were plotting against him at all. Significantly recalled was the odd official German statement that "Some of the traitors died with the words 'Heil Hitler!' on their lips...