Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict between the Austrian Fascist Heimwehr and the outlawed Socialist Schutzbund has been inevitable since the bloody riots of 1927. What even the Heimwehr did not anticipate was the fierce bravery of the Socialist defense and the effect it would have on the foreign popularity of little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. The final outcome was never in doubt, but for nearly 48 hours determined Socialists actually had the upper hand in Linz and Steyr (Austria's Detroit). For a brief time even the Heimwehr commander, theatrical Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, was surrounded. Victorious at last and with...
...tactics were to say nothing and do nothing until the Heimwehr had finished for them the messy job of cleaning up Socialism. Then they hoped to rally the disgruntled of all parties to the Swastika. The famed Nazi radio station in Munich that has been the bane of the Dollfuss Government for more than a year led off the campaign with a scornful speech by pale, spectacled Theodor Habicht, Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Said...
...leaders of the Nazi Party in Austria will expel any member who responds to Prince Schönburg-Hartenstein's appeal for old soldiers to come to the aid of the Dollfuss Government. We will sacrifice not a man and not a cartridge because every possible and conceivable outcome of this conflict will result against Germany and the German people. But we will be ready at any time to make any sacrifice for a German solution of the Austrian problem...
Next day, softening his tone, he rhetorically inquired whether the Dollfuss Government "is prepared to find a way into a better German future in common with the National Socialist movement?" As though to give Dollfuss time to answer this preposterous question, he declared an eight-day "armistice'' on Nazi activities in Austria. "Party comrades will be allowed in this period merely to conduct propaganda among former members of the Socialist Party or to ward off direct attacks against their own persons...
...Chancellor Dollfuss slip out of Vienna last week, and what were the consequences...