- Headline
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Police Halt Student Riot In Vienna, Austria
- Sub-Headline
- Nazi Students And Government Supporters At University Clash
- Publication Date
- Saturday, March 5, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- VIENNA, March 5 (AP)—Police were summoned today to halt a riot between Swastika-wearing Nazi students and government supporters at Vienna University.
The Nazi students mixed into the regular Saturday meeting of fraternities with shouts of "Heil Hitler!" the government supporters countered with a rousing "Hell Schuschnigg!" and the two groups clashed.
Police stopped the demonstration before any injuries more serious than blackened eyes and smashed noses were suffered.
Nazis blamed the incident on Communists while the youths involved declared the Nazis were responsible. The official version said that only non-political jealousies of rival boys groups were involved.
The clash was the second in Vienna within 24 hours. A 25-year-old teacher, Hans Lalitsch, was said by physicians to have been fatally wounded when he refused to raise his hands at the order of 10 masked men who invaded an Austrian youth movement hall. After shooting the teacher and a 16-year-boy the masked raiders escaped in automobiles.
Informed quarters believe that Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg has gained powerful support from the Austrian Socialists in his fight to prevent the illegal spread of Naziism[sic].
The chancellor received a delegation of Socialist workers today and listened sympathetically to their demands, indicating that a big step had been taken toward closing the gap existing between the government and the Socialists since the 1934 civil war.
One private news agency reported that the reconciliation was "practically complete."
Schuschnigg was quoted as telling the delegation that if the workers did not support him there was danger of a change in government. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
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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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