Word: heldenplatz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal courage few knew he possessed. He led the parade himself. Even so, Heimwehr-men followed instructions, threw rocks, howled "Pfni Schuschnigg! R-r-r-r-aus mit ihm! Hang Schuschnigg!" Three people were stabbed. Mounted, police swept up 70 cursing Heimwehrmen...
From the lacy steeple of the Stephans-dom in the centre of the parish churches in the suburbs, all the bells of Vienna bonged out in Jubilee last week. A great glittering crowd had assembled in the sweeping crescent of the Heldenplatz before the former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath...
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