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...Anne Frank. But Vienna police decided that a secret society of juvenile delinquents called Bundes Heimattreuer Jugend had bigger ambitions. Last week they raided the B.H.J., seized arms and explosives and uncovered plans to dynamite the Italian embassy as a means of aggravating the Austro-Italian dispute over South Tyrol ; the young thugs also planned to rough up delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival in July. Police arrested 18 members, including 27-year-old Ringleader Gustav Etzelt. Significantly, most of the arrested young neo-Nazi hooligans were in their early 20s, too young really to know what the Hitler...
...late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed Europe as Fugger linen left to bleach in the sun once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in the Tyrol, exporting textiles, metal and salt to lands beyond the seas, bringing back rare spices, furs and fruit. Almost one-third of Augsburg's 34,000 people were employed by the Fuggers, and kings and emperors knocked on Jakob's door for funds to wage...
Your coverage of the so-called "oppressed" German-speaking South Tyrol Italian subjects is paradoxical [March 9]. The record of the Austrian government in dealing with Slovenian and Croat (ethnically Slavic) minorities reveals an amazing degree of similarity to the fate of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule. Perhaps one method to resolve this so-called "crisis" of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule is exactly what the Austrian provincial authorities have done with its Slovenian and Croat minorities, i.e., forced (direct and indirect) assimilation or immigration...
Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi, has had since the war. Austrians were talking of carrying the matter to the United Nations, and were especially incensed...