Word: kufstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind patrols of tanks, armored cars and motorcycles mounting machine guns and antitank guns, 40,000 German soldiers riding in trucks, clinking their metal and squeaking in their leather, had been sweeping over the border since dawn. At Salzburg, Innsbruck, Kufstein, the German commanders rolled in, sent their staff officers to summon the Austrian commanders to the Rathaus, where the Austrians with unanimous cheerfulness accepted the decree that they were now part of the German Army...
...Vienna the Dollfuss Government pressed their advantage by charging that on the very morning of the protests in Berlin "15 uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited...
Little Tyrolese children in the neighborhood of Kufstein will think that many a thunderstorm is brewing next summer, if thunderstorms mean to them that God is rolling barrels around in the sky. An organ whose echoes will be heard for miles around the valley is to be installed on the great rock of Geroldseck as an Austrian War Memorial. Contributions taken throughout Germany and Austria have paid for the building of the great instrument which will have 1,735 pipes rising above what will appear to be a miniature keyboard set 330 feet lower down on the rock...