Word: innsbruck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hofer is a great name in the Tyrol. Bearded, barrel-chested Tyrolean Patriot Andreas Hofer, most faithful friend of the House of Habsburg, captured Innsbruck twice from French and Bavarian troops during the Napoleonic wars, was captured by Italian troops and executed at Mantua in 1810 under Napoleon's orders. His tomb is a shrine for Austrian patriotism. From the Tyrol too comes Franz Hofer, an Austrian Nazi. No friend of the Habsburgs, eager to see his country absorbed by Ger- many, Nazi Hofer unwittingly added 8,000 men to the little Austrian Army, and brought the active support...
...beginning of last week Franz Hofer, Nazi leader for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, was a political prisoner in Innsbruck jail. One midnight two men in the grey .Norfolk jackets of the anti-Nazi Heimwehr drove up to the jail with a prisoner handcuffed between them...
...with superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks were set off with such complete disregard of the consequences that 50 people were rushed to hospitals, hundreds fainted...
Petrofabrics. Whether terrestrial or cosmic, the forces that built the Alps tied them into complicated kinks. Bruno Sander, a native of the Austrian Tyrol and professor at the University of Innsbruck, described his method of studying the kinks. Specimens of crystalline rock were ground to paper thinness, peered at under the microscope where the force lines spring to view. By plotting hundreds of force lines from different parts of a mountain, he deduces the slidings and thrustings that formed the mountain. He calls his method petrofabrics, thinks it may prove useful in locating ore veins...
...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...