Word: heimwehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week in Innsbruck near the border, Nazi students spied the car of Prince Aloyse Löwenstein-Wertheim-Ro-senberg, onetime German Catholic Centre Party official, refugee from German Naziism. On it they spied the black, red and gold Heimwehr (Austrian Fascists) pennant. Students surrounded the car, jumped on the running board, ripped off the pennant. Up rose Princess Löwenstein, pulled a revolver from her purse and began firing at random into the crowd. The students fled, the Prince drove...
...Dollfuss and the Jews, knew that by "one country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because little Dollfuss faced them in the black cap, black trousers and green grey tunic of an officer in the Imperial Jager Regiment. Since...
...could reconsider its brusqueness to him. Police caught up with Frank and friends, busy on a haranguing tour of Austrian Nazi groups. They were told to leave Austria "rapidly." Then Dollfuss ordered 100 other German Nazis deported. He had already had 2,380 Austrian Nazis arrested for bombarding the Heimwehr with stones, vegetables and eggs filled with ink. He pondered banning Nazi emblems in Austria, dissolving the Austrian Nazis, entirely...
Dollfuss' problem last week lay in the alignment of three potent Austrian parties, backed by three foreign governments: the Christian Socialist, backed by France; the Heimatblock (Heimwehr), backed by Italy; the National Socialists, backed by Germany. Dollfuss does not want the National Socialists (Nazis); he can count on the Christian Socialist (government) party; he needs the Heimwehr too, now holding the balance of power. His wearing of the Jager uniform was romantic bait for the patriotic Heimwehr. More bait was dangled in the rumor that the Austrian Army will soon shuck its dull German field-grey, re-emerge...
Chancellor Dollfuss. Christian Socialist (Catholic) leader, needed all the backing he could get. Austrian Nazis were growing stronger each day. Until last week he had the official support of Austria's homegrown Fascists, the Heimwehr. Nearly half the Heimwehr split away last week. published an announcement ''acknowledging without condition or restriction Adolf Hitler as leader of the German nation...