Word: heimwehr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Apold waved his hands, spluttered. All Styria knew that A. M. G. had been behind the attempted Nazi Putsch. A few years ago A. M. G. used to back not the Nazis but the Heimwehr, private army of Austria's present Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. It was doubtless Thyssen who caused A. M. G. to switch over to what, for the present at least, has proved the losing side. Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain...
Dollfuss, at the head of the regular army and his private Heimwehr, ruled by decree. But in the last year the Austrians have twice turned to revolution and murder in an effort to express opinions which they were not permitted to express by ballot. Their peaceful opposition outlawed, their active revolt was suppressed by machine guns and the gallows...
...Cabinet. Next day swaggering Heimwehr troopers bragged: "Without us the Government would have fallen!" And a meeting of Heimwehr group leaders attended by Major Fey loudly demanded that their Supreme Leader, Acting Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg, be made Chancellor...
That night the Cabinet threw a barbed wire entanglement and a cordon of troops around the Ballhaus, retired within and hammered out a compromise which did all present much credit. Prince von Starhemberg agreed with President Miklas that Austria was not yet ready for a "Heimwehr Cabinet." Their pledge to carry on the Dollfuss tradition bound them, they felt, to pick a new Chancellor from his Catholic party and just after midnight they chose Dr. Schuschnigg, a seasoned lawyer-politician and, like Prince von Starhemberg a monarchist...
...telling involved such a rehash of queer Captain Roehm's unnatural orgies that next day Austrian Heimwehr Commander Prince von Starhemberg retorted: "The Austrian Government cannot remain unmoved when a version of events is broadcast over German radios which is the most unappetizing and dirtiest thing ever broadcast in the German language. Naziism is a version of Bolshevism! I know the present leaders of Germany personally. I know they are incapable of erecting a German system in Germany. Austrians, stand firm! Austria is destined to be the savior of Germanism...