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Monarchists in Austria Join Pickpockets in Jail As Nazis Extend Purge
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- 2 Sons of Man Whose Death Started World War Among Princes, Dukes Hurled in Cell
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 23, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- VIENNA, March 22 (U.P.)—Nine men whose lives have been devoted to a long struggle for restoration of the Hapsburg monarchy were herded into a police cell tonight, with pickpockets and drunks, as Austria's Nazi masters carried out a virtual purge of the old nobility.
The nine men—princes, dukes, and barons—represented almost the entire coterie of leaders who sought to place young Archduke Otto on the throne—a dream shattered by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's bold annexation of Austria as a German province nine days ago.
Among the prisoners were Duke Maximilian and Duke Ernest of Hohenberg, sons of Archduke Francis Ferdinand whose assassination at Sarajevo started the World War.
The "official" list of Austrian suicides meanwhile neared the 100 mark.
The monarchist prisoners, lodged in a large cell of Vienna's largest police detention house on Elizabeth Promenade, were said to be receiving "treatment no better than any of the other inmates."
Their suspenders, collar buttons, and shoe laces were taken from them and the erstwhile noblemen and courtiers presented a strange appearance.
Besides the archduke's sons—Maximilian is 36 and Ernest 35—the prisoners included:
Prince Karl Emil Fuerstenberg, 71, Austria's former imperial ambassador to the Court of Madrid. He has been an intimate friend of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for many years and has large estates both in Germany and Austria.
Baron Karl Werkmann, 60, last personal secretary of the late Emporer Charles.
Baron Hans Zeisner-Spitzenberg, 53, monarchist representative in the former Fatherland Front.
Gen. Othmar Banesch. 77, former major general of the imperial army.
Count Thun, owner of estates in Czechoslovakia.
Baron Reischiin-Meldegg, former army colonel whose brother is adjutant to Archduke Eugene of the Hapsburgs.
Col. Gustav Wolff. 60, who first organized the restoration movement.
The formal charges against the sons of Archduke Francis Ferdinand were not disclosed but it was reported that Duke Ernest recently smashed a signboard in the German railway office in Vienna.
(Meanwhile, Associated Press reported, Sigmund Freud. 82-year-old "father of psychoanalysis." was seriously ill, close friends said, after a visit of secret Nazi police to his home last night. The police were said to have seized the Jewish scien-
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Bibliography
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Fuchs, Martin. Showdown in Vienna: The Death of Austria. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1939.
Low, Alfred. The Anschluss Movement, 1931-1938, and the Great Powers. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1985.
Wagner, Dieter. Anschluss: The Week Hitler Seized Vienna. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971.
Wimmer, Adi. Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
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