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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...
...dozen Socialist headquarters, occupied and guarded the offices of the Arbeiter Zeitung and announced that they had uncovered evidence of heinous plots and enough bombs to wreck a good section of the city. The Farmers' Party sent a vigorous protest which was promptly suppressed. When Chancellor Dollfuss reappeared in Vienna, he was ready at last to commit himself. Assured of French support (see p. 16), he boldly called the Socialists by their Heimwehr tag, "Marxist-Bolshevists," patted the Heimwehr on the back for "demanding the rapid execution of my program for getting rid of the parties and Parliament...
Much elated, Prince von Starhemberg strongly hinted that if Dollfuss did not carry out the Heimwehr program to the limit, he might sell out to the Nazis. Crowed he: "The Chancellor's first job is to clear the Socialists out of Vienna's City Hall. If he fails to do it, the Heimwehr will. If the Heimwehr fails, the Nazis will...
...whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some 2,000 Socialist families. By the end of the second day's fighting, in what met most definitions of civil war, 400 to 500 Austrians lay dead. Austrian Socialism lay battered and bleeding, but Chancellor Dollfuss had yet to reckon with the sterner talents of Naziism...
...Chancellor Dollfuss slip out of Vienna last week, and what were the consequences...