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While Chancellor Dollfuss, Major Fey and Under-Secretary Baron Karl Karwinsky were being trapped in the State Apartments, Vienna's chief radio station RAVAG was falling in the hands of eight desperate youths in Austrian Nazi gear. They had burst in, shot the manager and forced the chief announcer to tell all Austria in a trembling voice: "It is one minute and 30 seconds past one p. m. We have to inform you that the Dollfuss Cabinet has resigned and Anton Rintelen has taken over the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Death for Freedom | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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