Word: heimwehr
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...Nice, dark, scowling Ernst Rüdiger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...
...Poles estimated there were 7,000 of them. They were housed in the barracks at Langfuhr, northwest of the city, and soon were observed installing machine guns and building fortifications on the Bischofsberg, the hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft had arrived by German ships. In the Danzig shipyards German employers were ordered by the political leaders to dismiss Polish workers. Out beyond on the fortified Hel Peninsula, which is Polish, antiaircraft guns took...
This figure, calculated Correspondent Sheean, includes some 12,000 Roman Catholics, an additional 5,000 to 6,000 members of Ernst Rudiger Prinz von Starhemberg's Heimwehr, several hundred aristocrats, thousands of workers, trade-union leaders, Social Democrats and Communists, 20,000 Jews and 450 Austrian Nazis "purged" fortnight...
...Anschluss. Carefully kept from the populace was the news that a wave of suicides had swept over once-gay Vienna, until hundreds were reported to have taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike, he momentarily expected "liquidation" after the Nazis came into power...
Sensational father-daughter joint suicides were reported throughout German Austria. Tyrolean Tycoon Friedrich Reitlinger, ardent Catholic and financial backer of the Heimwehr, had his daughter shoot him, then herself. At Innsbruck a 69-year-old university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director...