Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestor who led the defense of Vienna in 1683. An out-&-out Fascist, he has spent most of his great fortune founding, drilling, equipping the Heimwehr that is now the backbone of the Dollfuss Government. Once a friend of Adolf Hitler, he fought beside him in the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, broke away when he suddenly realized that Handsome Adolf was committed not only to the conquest of Germany but the absorption of Austria. He is still titular head of the Heimwehr but the direction of it has been quietly taken out from under...
Broadcasting from Munich that same night, Chancellor Hitler's chief anti-Dollfuss propagandist, Nazi Theodor Habicht, roared: "There can be no peace and stability in Europe until Germany and Austria are united!" In Vienna counter-propaganda was released by the Austrian Foreign Office which inspired reports that Chancellor Dollfuss can now count on "certain military action" by Great Britain, France and Italy to preserve the status quo in Austria should his cabinet be menaced by "either German or Austrian Nazis...
...have become Protestant pastors!" Such stuff of course meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German Christians...
...enjoying a mild flirtation with the beauteous and straight-thinking Carlotta. Up the Danube wheezes a rackety motor boat, manned by a simple Canadian and his earthy half-breed Indian wife. Carlotta and the Irishman join their party, show them Vienna night-life and go on with them to Munich. There they get into a Nazi shooting scrape and are befriended by a doctor who is also a famed airman and the inventor of a mystery plane. He invites them to accompany him on his trial flight to an unknown destination. Amid much municipal fuss they take off at dusk...
...filling his galleries not with mediocre pictures but full-sized German color reproductions of famed European masterpieces, valued at from $10 to $25 apiece, most of them printed by the famous commercial litho graph family of Adolf Hitler's best friend, booming, excitable Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl of Munich...