Word: heimwehr
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...integral part of the German Empire." Two weeks late, Germany replied to Austria's plaintive note citing specific examples of German-inspired Nazi outrages in Austria. With a cavalier sweep wholly unsatisfactory to Vienna, Berlin abruptly denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch. If that was so it worked, for not a Nazi showed his head in Eastern Tyrol. But when a Heimwehr mass meeting finally was held, Heimwehr Commander Prince Ernst...
Fortunately for Millimetternich Dollfuss, there is another Heimwehr commander who has never yet wavered in his loyalty, blue-eyed, square-jawed Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor. From the Dollfuss office went forth a new pronunciamento announcing that "Nazi terrorism has become so barbarous that the Government's patience is at an end." Thereupon Major Fey was given new powers to jail judges, police, city or federal authorities suspected of Nazi sympathies...
...Nazis into Austria it must all too obviously be accomplished under a form of government that is, in essence, dictatorial, for any other sort is too unwieldy to avert the danger which now threatens. Unfortunately, the balance in Austria is so even that neither the Viennese socialists nor the Heimwehr can feel sure of any permanent success. Since this is the case, the cause of the Nazis has been considerably strengthened, and if a purely nominal Fascist government is established, it is difficult to see just what the powers can do about it--except to utilize it as a safety...
...their present state of turmoll, that country is able to devote but little attention to foreign affairs. Consequently, it becomes increasingly likely that Dollfuss will not be able to hold out against the Nazi flood for much longer. The antagonistic tone adopted by Prince von Starhemberg, commander of the Heimwehr indicates all too clearly that the moment of collapse cannot be much longer deferred...
...There is only one law in the Heimwehr. I command and you obey. . . . Every leader down to the last man must henceforth avenge every Nazi attack. If legal authorities fail to mete out justice, take the law into your own hands...