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Wollersdorf:. Josef Bürckel, the burly Nazi commissar sent by Berlin to Vienna to put on the plebiscite campaign, last week had barracks at Wöllersdorf-which was used as a prison camp for opponents of Dollfuss and later Schuschnigg-soaked with gasoline and set afire. While thousands gaped and the flames roared skyward with such intense heat that Orator Burckel was nearly scorched upon his rostrum and perspiration poured down his beet-red face, he shouted that Nazis will never again be locked up at Wöllersdorf. In Vienna there were rumors in responsible quarters that...
Cover figures are chosen for timeliness, but Subscriber Nesbitt errs if he supposes that each is supposed to be "The Man of the Hour." When Dr. Schuschnigg was chosen, TIME'S editors could not anticipate that he would become so much more timely that Adolf Hitler would find it necessary to enter Austria...
Orator Göring, who was wearing for this popular occasion scarcely any of his medals, and these few on the brown shirt of a simple Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly...
...point program of Austrian economic rehabilitation. "Austria's economic reconstruction is the task of the Germans in Austria!" he cried. "Germany will furnish the necessary capital and strength. ... A year hence ask me whether I have kept my promises or whether you want to return to the Schuschnigg system...
Under the Schuschnigg system the gold reserve was such that for every Austrian there was .194 oz. of gold in the Federal Treasury, whereas under the Hitler system there was for every German .013 oz. of gold in the German Treasury. The management of Austrian finance under the League of Nations for years after the War, the economic crumbs which the Allies gave to Austria because they wished to avert her collapse, and in the last few years the economic favors Italy showered upon Austria-before Mussolini finally threw Schuschnigg overboard and teamed up with Hitler-all these factors have...