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Heimwehr

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Heimwehr 

(Home Defense Force), an armed organization in Austria that existed from 1919 to 1938. The Heimwehr was formed by the Austrian bourgeoisie to combat the working-class movement. In 1930 it adopted an openly fascist program of action; its leadership looked for inspiration to Fascist Italy, from which it received money and arms. In 1934, Heimwehr detachments helped put down an armed worker’s demonstration against reaction and fascism (seeFEBRUARY ARMED DEMONSTRATION OF 1934).
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But, the Austrian Heimwehr or Home Guard, a paramilitary group, had many peasant members from traditionally volkish and anti-Semitic areas like Carinthia and Styria who combined religious distrust of Jews, hatred of socialism, and alienation from metropolitan Vienna.
Austria's pre-war Brown v. Board of Education by Marcus, Maria L. / Fordham Urban Law Journal
Dollfuss sends those opposed to his Heimwehr fascists to concentration camps.
Radical twentieth century by New Internationalist
By focusing too much on culture, the Socialists were not prepared to meet the direct political challenges of the Pan-Germans, the Heimwehr, the Christian Socials, and Nazi sympathizers.
Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919-1934 by Bowman, William D. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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