Word: schuschnigg
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Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood...
Died. Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, 56, pioneer Fascist, Vice Chancellor of Austria in the pre-World War II Dollfuss and Schuschnigg dictatorships, which he helped set up, organizer of the green-shirted Heimwehr, which wiped out Austria's one solid block of resistance against Naziism in a raid on the Socialist Party in Vienna in 1934; of a heart attack; in Schruns, Austria. Scion of an ancient Austrian family, Von Starhemberg backed the wrong Fascist, worked with Mussolini against the Anschluss, fled when Hitler took over in 1938, saw his 13 castles, hundreds of dwellings, mines...
...Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took on the job of aligning Austria's economy with Germany's rearmament plan. During World War II, while Figl and other anti-Nazis were in concentration camps, Raab was free and an engineer for an Austrian road-building firm...