Word: planetta
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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First business of the day was to get a court martial busy trying the Dollfuss assassins. One ex-Sergeant Otto Planetta confessed to shooting the Chancellor. Said he: "Someone jogged my arm and the gun discharged. I then noticed what seemed to be only a shadow fall to the floor...
...Later, I realized it was the Chancellor. I told him, 'Get up,' but he replied, 'I'm not able.' " Planetta and a 20-year-old electrician, Franz Holzweber, accused of leading the assassins into the Chancellery, were the first to be convicted. They were promptly hanged...
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