How The First Austrian Republic was Dissolved

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Today's episode is the first of a series about the authoritarian regime that took control over Austria in the 1930s. It discusses what challenges the First Austrian Republic faced, what the anti-democratic elements of the country looked like and how parliament was abolished from above in such a short time span.
Sources:
- Carsten, Francis L.: Faschismus in Österreich. Von Schönerer zu Hitler, Munich 1978.
- Meysels, Lucian O.: Der Austrofaschismus. Das Ende der ersten Republik und ihr letzter Kanzler, Vienna & Munich 1992.
- Mittelmeier, Andreas: Austrofaschismus contra Ständestaat. Wie faschistisch war das autoritäre Regime im Österreich der 1930er Jahre verglichen mit Mussolinis Italien?, Saarbrücken 2010.
- Tálos, Emmerich & Wenninger, Florian: Das autrofaschistische Österreich 1933-1938, Vienna 2017.
- Wasserman, Janek: Black Vienna. The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938, Ithaca & London 2014.
Music Used:
Hallen - Die Toteninsel
Wagner - Faust
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Political Enemies
3:29 The Schattendorf Murders and the July Revolt
6:10 The Korneuburg Oath
7:27 Economic Issues
10:55 Erosion of Democratic Rights
15:02 The First Anti-Fascist Uprising
16:01 The May Constitution of 1934
17:32 End Card

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  • @koolergandalf1179
    @koolergandalf1179 Жыл бұрын

    It's shocking how few people even know that there was an Austrian civil war and Fascist Ständestaat before the Anschluss

  • @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585

    @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, same as what happened in most other european states in the bloody interwar period. The various authoritarian regimes and the many wars they waged between each other in those few years are too often forgotten. A reminder on how important international organisations such as the european union are for maintaining peace and democratic values.

  • @Xorkuss

    @Xorkuss

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably because people are more grabbed by the democratic regimes that were taken over by nazi germany. A fascist regime replaced by a nazi regime doesnt have the same spark I guess?

  • @lokidoki525

    @lokidoki525

    Жыл бұрын

    Dolfuß is still the hero we needed.

  • @koolergandalf1179

    @koolergandalf1179

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@lokidoki525 Bruder hast du gerade einen Faschisten einen Held genannt ?

  • @ElectrostatiCrow

    @ElectrostatiCrow

    Жыл бұрын

    That explains a lot actually. I was wondering why Austria voted overwhelmingly in favor of the anschluss.

  • @El-s
    @El-s Жыл бұрын

    Idk why but “in the name of god, the almighty, from whom all law proceeds” followed by “basis of corporative principles” is so funny to me

  • @stekra3159

    @stekra3159

    Жыл бұрын

    Its so sekf rigthes and petty

  • @matheuspinho4987

    @matheuspinho4987

    Жыл бұрын

    So you should read the Brazilian "Constitution" it literally says "we representatives of the Brazilian people, in the presence of *GOD* " and articles later it says the Brazilian state is secular

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@matheuspinho4987 Although not in the Constitution, America is very similar. It is the same with Ireland although that is more explicit with the Trinitarian references.

  • @TheGrenadier97

    @TheGrenadier97

    11 ай бұрын

    The brazilian republic is secular, not atheistic; and the nation - to whom every sort of political entity and person should serve - is historically Catholic. There's no opposition there, except for the pretension that these "representatives" are in the presence of God in doing their jobs (or not).

  • @heylolp9

    @heylolp9

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@TheGrenadier97 most countries that westernised are secular these days even if long standing traditions and laws based on those still have some minor effect on the country. For example: The Establishment Clause of the US Bill of Rights says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” and they don't. However, since most US Citizens don't actually care about the fact that the US by law is a country without the recognition of *any* religion, Congress still mandated to change the country motto from "E Pluribus Unum" (From many united to one) to "In God we trust" purely because of the Red Scare of the atheistic Politburo that governed the USSR. The "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance at the same time and they started the force indoctrination of US school children that to this day have to say the pledge like in a weird cult of personality state. This all to say secular by law means nothing if they people making the laws are allowed to act like it means nothing

  • @LucasBenderChannel
    @LucasBenderChannel Жыл бұрын

    I really need to binge your entire channel soon. Every video of yours seems to be an absolute banger. Good job breaking it all down for a foreign audience!

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! :)

  • @quuaaarrrk8056
    @quuaaarrrk80569 ай бұрын

    -Austria- history in the 1930s can probably be described with "And then it got worse"

  • @thejulinks
    @thejulinks Жыл бұрын

    It's very refreshing to see such a well researched video about an often overlooked topic! I just have to add one detail: Dollfuß was able to dissolve the parliament "legally" because all three presidents resigned. No more parliamentary presidents ("Nationalratspräsidenten") meant no one was able to offically close the last session and then reconviene the other one, which gave the legal justification for Dollfuß to stop members od parliament from entering. The reason why the three presidents resigned is also interesting - there was a political vote about whether the afforementioned head of the railway union should be prosecuted or pardoned. This vote was incredibly close with "pardon" camp being one vote shy of a majority. Realising this, the first president of parliament, a social democrat, resigned from his role, which demoted him back to a regular member of parliament and made him elligible to vote, securing the majority. As a response, however, the second and third president did the same, creating an unforseen legal situation that was then exploited by Dollfuß.

  • @schurlbirkenbach1995

    @schurlbirkenbach1995

    2 ай бұрын

    Ridiculous. Because they wanted to gain some little coins in an insignificant quarrel, they gave Dollfuss the possibility, to dissolve the parliament.

  • @thetoyyya6890
    @thetoyyya6890 Жыл бұрын

    tbh as a Swede I had no idea about what happened in Austria before the Anschluss so this was hugely informative, what really stood out to me too was just how openly and brazenly the fascists took power and destroyed democracy seemingly even without tons of popular support.

  • @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585

    @telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585

    Жыл бұрын

    Many austrians after the breakup of the monarchy thought of austria as a failed state, there was a widespread belief that an "Anschluss" was inevitable. The vast majority were still rural farmers that were used to a distant emperor ruling over them, they cared little for a new democracy. Under the monarchy, there was a growing liberal movement in the large cities (most notably krakow, vienna, prague, budapest and lviv), but as you can see all these cities were now in different states, the movements were broken up, and now former allies stood in opposition towards each other. With such a small base these democracies stood on very weak feet, and only Czechoslovakia would stay democratic until the German annexation.

  • @thetoyyya6890

    @thetoyyya6890

    Жыл бұрын

    @@telcharthegreatsmithofthef7585 Interesting, that makes a lot of sense, so even when the social democrats were by far the biggest party I imagine that was only in the major cities they had big support

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    As opposed to those who wanted to join nazi Germany?

  • @MrJakobMovies

    @MrJakobMovies

    6 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @domsenic5548
    @domsenic5548 Жыл бұрын

    Finally a good video about the Ständestaat dictatorship! For me as an austrian it is allways shocking and fear inducing to see how many people, expecially austrians like to forget about this dark part of our past. Thanks for the Video!

  • @tritonewt3344

    @tritonewt3344

    Жыл бұрын

    What makes it so dark?

  • @domsenic5548

    @domsenic5548

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tritonewt3344 it was a fascist dictatorship with death penalty, a dangerous amount nationalism and workcamps for everyone who disagrees with the ruling party

  • @skullslace2426

    @skullslace2426

    Жыл бұрын

    Same here. Given everything that is going on, the rhetoric used, the economic crisis, the war in Ukraine etc. I am really worried about where we're heading. It's nice to realize I'm not necessarily alone with that.

  • @domsenic5548

    @domsenic5548

    Жыл бұрын

    @@skullslace2426 yeah im xompletely with you bro, but i still got faith, thanks to the eu austria is too integrated in the democratic world to get lost again. In addition the truly democratic parties of the greens, the neos and the spö are a bullwark that protects us from possible threats from the extreme right

  • @skullslace2426

    @skullslace2426

    Жыл бұрын

    @Domsenic I'd like to hope so. However, given the amount of infighting in the SPÖ and the performance of the green party over the last years, together with the significant drop in their popularity (I know to only trust polls so far, however...) I'm still worried. Though if I look at the statistics for younger voters, who are fighting very hard for our future, I won't give up all hope.

  • @user-tk2lf1dv3s
    @user-tk2lf1dv3s Жыл бұрын

    Well this was completely different from how I learned it in school, where it was presented as 'both sides bad'. Like this way more though since it is an actual acurate summary

  • @hex2637

    @hex2637

    Жыл бұрын

    When the ÖVP, a party that came from Dollfuss's christian democratic party, writes the curriculum, no doubt they'll whitewash as much of it as possible.

  • @AEIOU05

    @AEIOU05

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hex2637 lmao all textbooks literally portray the reds as total victims when they were in fact the instigators for their own demise. Fuck them, hopefully they continue to tear themselves apart like they are doing right now with their embarrassing internal power struggle

  • @jurgenpetry6899

    @jurgenpetry6899

    8 ай бұрын

    That‘s because Dollfuß party is still printing the school books in AT 😉

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    7 ай бұрын

    The party that stood up to nazism and communism? I do not get it why are they not given laurels or something?

  • @catonkybord7950

    @catonkybord7950

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@johnnotrealname8168 Because nowadays they are a bunch of corrupt greedy twats who use populistic formulas to fool voters and are not opposed to cooperating with the far right. That's why.

  • @jorinton
    @jorinton Жыл бұрын

    I'm so glad you continue making videos despite limited successes. You really deserve much more attention than you get.

  • @generalfeldmarschall3781
    @generalfeldmarschall3781 Жыл бұрын

    Funfact poland was also a dictatorship before ww2

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    And so were all the Baltic States, Greece, and Yugoslavia. Only Czechoslovakia did not slide into authoritarianism prior to 1938.

  • @generalfeldmarschall3781

    @generalfeldmarschall3781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerbozinovski427 yes It Was stupid to abolish the monachy everywere

  • @generalfeldmarschall3781

    @generalfeldmarschall3781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerbozinovski427 yes It Was stupid to abolish the monachy everywere

  • @pinotpinotpinot

    @pinotpinotpinot

    Жыл бұрын

    @@generalfeldmarschall3781 They should not only have beeng abolished but thoroughly purged and executed. At least in Germany that way the Hohenzollern couldn't have meddled in the Weimar Republic. Monarchs and Monarchists sided with Fascists and Nazis.

  • @generalfeldmarschall3781

    @generalfeldmarschall3781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pinotpinotpinot no

  • @zarkox8384
    @zarkox8384 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for doing such wonderful videos about topics no one or almost no one talks about.

  • @Bergdampf
    @Bergdampf Жыл бұрын

    Interwar Austrian history fascinates me. Especially the Ständestaat, such an interesting state. I even have a book by Schuschnigg on my shelf. Danke dafür Herr Manatee.

  • @maximiliankoch2593

    @maximiliankoch2593

    Жыл бұрын

    Interesting... why

  • @Styrbjiorn

    @Styrbjiorn

    8 ай бұрын

    @@maximiliankoch2593 It was effective

  • @friendpelle
    @friendpelle Жыл бұрын

    Always love it when this channel uploads a new video.

  • @JosephCapelli
    @JosephCapelli11 ай бұрын

    I'm amazed this never came up in school when I studied the lead up to WW2. The fact that the Austrians had their own fascist government and a de facto alliance with Mussolini, and the assassination of Dolfuss and its consequences, for example, would have been good to know when asked to discuss the lead up to to the Anschluss.

  • @chaoticflorius
    @chaoticflorius Жыл бұрын

    A lot of stuff I didnt know and I really felt like I should have. Thanks for the great video mate!

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it :D

  • @itfunes
    @itfunes11 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed the video a lot! Really well made and your German pronunciation is astounding.

  • @kj07video
    @kj07video9 ай бұрын

    I can’t believe how your still unknown, your videos are awesome!

  • @vipza72130
    @vipza72130 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for filling up a huge gap in my understanding of the world

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome :*

  • @DaRealKakarroto
    @DaRealKakarroto Жыл бұрын

    As an Austrian I sometimes wonder, what would've had happened if our great great grand fathers would've let Austria be a (symbolic) monarchy but with the legal system of a liberal democracy (like in Great Britain). Would the Ständestaat or the Anschluss happen like in our timeline? Would WWII be different? Or would've had that encouraged the people at the time to grab for even more power?

  • @heisenbachofficial9437

    @heisenbachofficial9437

    Жыл бұрын

    The same thing that happened in Italy: dictatorship tolerated by a monarch.

  • @schlawyn3r418

    @schlawyn3r418

    Жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't the Nazis have taken Austria anyway?

  • @generalfeldmarschall3781

    @generalfeldmarschall3781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heisenbachofficial9437 it was more the other way around

  • @heisenbachofficial9437

    @heisenbachofficial9437

    Жыл бұрын

    @@generalfeldmarschall3781 Either way, the monarch wouldn't play a big role.

  • @ekesandras1481

    @ekesandras1481

    Жыл бұрын

    @@heisenbachofficial9437 the monarch deposed Mussolini in 1943 (ok, a bit late, but still)

  • @HauntedXXXPancake
    @HauntedXXXPancake Жыл бұрын

    Jeesh, Those guys made a return to Monarchy look palatable ...

  • @Panda-ss3zh
    @Panda-ss3zh Жыл бұрын

    Tolles Video

  • @iGamezRo
    @iGamezRo Жыл бұрын

    I remember playing Austria in Kaiserredux with Dolfuss. You basically "federalise" Austria-Hungary into an one-party state where you are more Catholic than the Pope and where you hate Germany and can create Grossdeutschland. Or how Wikipedia would have put it: "Federal Constitutional Monarchy under an One-Party Totalitarian Regime".

  • @alejandrotoro9676
    @alejandrotoro967619 күн бұрын

    Sir I must thank you, your video was such a good resource in guiding me when I had to write an 8 page paper on Dollfuss. Don't worry I also used books 🤣 but you helped me in trimming the fat from those books when I started my research

  • @lordedmundblackadder9321
    @lordedmundblackadder932111 ай бұрын

    Honestly I wish the Republic of German-Austria survived because, imo, despite its *interesting* borders, it’s such a cool idea for a state.

  • @mikewazowski7024

    @mikewazowski7024

    4 ай бұрын

    It was a fascist dictatorship with multiple human rights violations.

  • @Gagegehris
    @Gagegehris3 ай бұрын

    So when are the next parts to this series being released?

  • @kaanyasin3733
    @kaanyasin3733 Жыл бұрын

    Cool Video about a rare topic

  • @AEIOU05
    @AEIOU05 Жыл бұрын

    The electoral poster on the right at 3:08 is actually not from the interwar years but from 1945. The Austrian people’s party wasn’t a thing until that year, as it was founded out of the remnants of the Fatherland Front

  • @DavidGonzalez-jh6eh
    @DavidGonzalez-jh6eh Жыл бұрын

    It's sad to see that because of this, the annexation later by germany was practically just giving your shoes away to someone who had the same size.

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    The nazis were way worse what the @#£%?

  • @user-tf2ru7oz6w
    @user-tf2ru7oz6w10 ай бұрын

    It vwas interesting that you explained how the Dollfuss government came to power. I guess in the next video you'll explain why Dollfuss was assassinated .

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    10 ай бұрын

    There will be more on the topic, yes ;)

  • @andreykoritnyansky9729
    @andreykoritnyansky9729 Жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @petehall1900
    @petehall1900 Жыл бұрын

    Yes please more 1920s and 19030s videos

  • @pinotpinotpinot
    @pinotpinotpinot Жыл бұрын

    Damn really have to say Schattendorf is an absolute metal name. Just imagine how it would feel to say you are from "Shadow Village" lmao

  • @invidusspectator3920
    @invidusspectator3920 Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad someone made a video on one of the more forgotten countries that lost WWI and the fascinating interwar period for these losing nations. I imagine history would have went quite different if the communists were able to take power in Austria in the interwar period.

  • @roterotevideo
    @roterotevideo5 ай бұрын

    You should give Fascism in the Working Class by Jill Lewis a read. It is about Styria and the actions of the Oesterreichisch-Alpine Montangesellschaft. I think you’d get a lot out of it.

  • @TheGrenadier97
    @TheGrenadier97 Жыл бұрын

    Engelbert Dolfuss was a much better option in this european context and at this time than either Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. The fact that he was murdered by german and austrian national-socialists and his successor Schuschnigg opposed the german nazis up until the Anschluss - despite the wide democratic will in favor of the annexing neighbor - are quite interesting elements to consider.

  • @domenstrmsek5625
    @domenstrmsek5625 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this glorious history for austria

  • @crocve
    @crocve2 ай бұрын

    I am from Portugal, I have an academic background and my thesis was actually related to fascism and corporatism, and I was made aware of the Dolfuss Austro-Fascist regime due to the fact that it had a lot of similarities with the Salazar regime, due to the influence of Catholic Social Teaching and Catholicism in general in both regimes (they also arose around the same time, 1932-1934). There were also similar in the sense that they tried to impose a veneer of legality and tried to appease the middle-classes by building Constitutions that - in theory - put limits on state power; and that unlike other fascist regimes, such Constitutions were built as to codify a "societal project" to mold society through corporatist organization, based on the teachings of the previous mentioned Catholic Social Teaching. In Portugal there were also many aborted or stopped coup attempts to overthrow it (it lasted longer than the Austrian regime, ofc) because liberals and leftists just didn´t had the means and the popular support - even though we had an older liberal-democratic tradition compared to Austria (that dated back to the 1820´s), large swathes of the population were iliterate masses living in mostly rural areas, and were thus extremely depoliticized and suspectible to manipulation from reactionary forces (Catholic Church and land-owners).

  • @Tea_N_Crumpets
    @Tea_N_Crumpets Жыл бұрын

    Why don’t you have more subs?! Seriously, algorithm, get on this.

  • @EmmaWithoutOrgans

    @EmmaWithoutOrgans

    Жыл бұрын

    they’re left-wing, media does not like left-wingers

  • @joaotomas9430
    @joaotomas9430 Жыл бұрын

    You should do an video on why the first portuguese republic failed

  • @user-saraswatidevi
    @user-saraswatidevi Жыл бұрын

    It's sad I was never taught this in school It's very interesting

  • @mattBLACKpunk
    @mattBLACKpunk Жыл бұрын

    Honestly with all that plotting and corruption it's just like modern Austrian politics 🫠

  • @jtgd
    @jtgd11 ай бұрын

    11:18 aah, scary looking German words. Imagine English words being fused like that. Wartimepowerdecree Emergencywartimedictatorshippowers

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    11 ай бұрын

    Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft

  • @Montaggg33
    @Montaggg337 ай бұрын

    It never ceases to amaze me that Dollfuß, someone who strived to maintain the country's independence, is viewed nowadays as someone as bad as the Austrias Painter himself, meanwhile the socialdemocrats who have been aiming to unite Austria with Germany (again, sth viewed as sth negative nowadays by Austrians) are being praised as defenders of democracy and saviours

  • @schurlbirkenbach1995

    @schurlbirkenbach1995

    2 ай бұрын

    Bernaschek, the commander of the Schutzbund in Linz, who pulled the trigger in 1934, escaped from prison with the help of a Nazi prison director and enigrated to Nazi Germany where he was welcomed. And he was not the only social democrat, who fled to the national socialist Germany. That are the little details, which are forgotten by left wing historians.

  • @saladcat8305
    @saladcat83058 ай бұрын

    Weird that our school never taught us about the background of Austria and the politics, even tho we were in Austria. I knew it already but most people in the school generally did not know about it. Politics never get taught which is such a dangerous move, espesically with right wing extremism becoming a risk again. We should never forgot what Ring Wing politics did to us, the world and humans.

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    7 ай бұрын

    Right-Wing extremism being hyped aside, these so called "fascists" opposed the nazis, the leader was assassinated by them (By the way a democratic victory by the nazis was not impossible, as happened in Germany.) and the communists, who were in league with the soviets. How many left-wing bodies are you not mourning? Of course they are just bodies.

  • @WombatOfDisaster
    @WombatOfDisaster Жыл бұрын

    Holy, I'm Austrian aswell and the "corporate basis" is so haunting

  • @AEIOU05

    @AEIOU05

    5 ай бұрын

    Mit "Corporate Basis" ist eine "ständische Grundlage" gemeint, nichts mit Konzernen oder dergleichen. Das Ständeprinzip gibt es in Österreich teilweise noch heute, unser Wirtschaftssystem hat neokorporatistische Ansätze

  • @WombatOfDisaster

    @WombatOfDisaster

    5 ай бұрын

    @@AEIOU05 hi, ist ja wohl in eine Besserstellung der Konzerne in Ö gemündet?

  • @user-uh8fu3mb9l
    @user-uh8fu3mb9l Жыл бұрын

    Wir sind die Arbeiter von Wien!

  • @masonharvath-gerrans832

    @masonharvath-gerrans832

    11 ай бұрын

    Wirtlich?

  • @user-uh8fu3mb9l

    @user-uh8fu3mb9l

    11 ай бұрын

    @@masonharvath-gerrans832 No, it's a phrase from the interwar Austrian workers' song “Die Arbeiter von Wien”. And unfortunately, I can't really read German.

  • @DerFailigeNoob
    @DerFailigeNoob Жыл бұрын

    I find it disgusting, that the currrent ruling party in Austria has a lot of politicians that are fond of dollfuß and those times...

  • @oellappen269

    @oellappen269

    Жыл бұрын

    Dollfuß was one of the best options during that time.

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    7 ай бұрын

    Why not celebrate the man who stood up to nazis and communists? That is like awesome! He was also pro-worker for goodness sake! Democracy was not an option! *LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IN GERMANY!!!*

  • @fonchy6098
    @fonchy6098 Жыл бұрын

    Austromarxism, austrofascism, Austria was and is very interesting

  • @mathselep4336
    @mathselep4336 Жыл бұрын

    Best political video essays for the germanspeaking world

  • @joniccan6689
    @joniccan6689 Жыл бұрын

    your german pronounciation is sooo fcking good holy shit

  • @oellappen269

    @oellappen269

    Жыл бұрын

    He is german. Very, very few foreigners can pronounce these words correctly.

  • @dingaling487
    @dingaling487 Жыл бұрын

    Austrofascism was so weird. There seems to be an inherent dissonance between dissolving the austrian state into germany and creating a powerful austria.

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    7 ай бұрын

    There was no wanting to be in Germany, as long the nazis were around at least. Beyond the stupidity of that term, what did they do wrong?

  • @YarPirates-vy7iv
    @YarPirates-vy7iv4 ай бұрын

    Who's that man on the Christian Socialist party poster? I found one place that just said a man. I don't know the political parties involved or the history, but from the name I assume it's God in a tuxedo being all benevolent as he that's his shtick or whatever.

  • @SirManateee

    @SirManateee

    4 ай бұрын

    That's Dr. Karl Lueger, the mayor of Vienna between 1897 and 1910.

  • @utvm6748
    @utvm6748 Жыл бұрын

    Can u make second republic including kpö. I feel like you genuinely could have mentioned them as well, social democracy is not socialism.

  • @hex2637

    @hex2637

    Жыл бұрын

    Back then it pretty much was. The end goal of social democrats used to be socialism.

  • @utvm6748

    @utvm6748

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hex2637 social democracy are traitors and a mix of capitalism and socialism.

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    7 ай бұрын

    The moment a leftist realises the communists really were in league with the soviet union (The communist party in the U.S. opposed perestroika and glasnost for @#£%'s sake!).

  • @lettuceman9439

    @lettuceman9439

    2 ай бұрын

    @hex2637 Not really, the Social Democrats goal is pragmatism by limiting capitalism and stop socialism.

  • @utvm6748

    @utvm6748

    2 ай бұрын

    there is also a left and right side of soc dem@@lettuceman9439

  • @sahilhossain8204
    @sahilhossain8204 Жыл бұрын

    Lore of How The First Austrian Republic was Dissolved momentum 100

  • @germanconvert1903
    @germanconvert1903 Жыл бұрын

    Anschluss reverse would have been based af

  • @serebii666
    @serebii666 Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what the Social Democrat Party members fared in Czechoslovakia. Do you know if they got help emigrating by the so-called Šaldův komitet?

  • @ekesandras1481

    @ekesandras1481

    Жыл бұрын

    in the early years the Socialst Party (as it was than called) was considered one single party in Austria and Czechoslovakia. They acted as it were only the two local branches of the same supranational party. So the Austrian socialists just fled to their comrades of the same party. Most of them went to Brünn/Brno, which is just a few kilometers north of the border. They even continued to publish the party newspaper from there.

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@ekesandras1481 And yet the Germans living there were still forcibly deported in a death march after the war for supposedly being sympathetic to Nazism. RIP

  • @thebluke
    @thebluke Жыл бұрын

    I would love a video on the short lived austira-german repblic that lasted around 1918-1919

  • @rolandcharriez7631
    @rolandcharriez7631 Жыл бұрын

    Great Video! Unfortunately, history could repeat itself here in the US. Let's hope this does not happen. We are at the crossroad of history.

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, they have practically all the institutions, and a machine that churns out students who believe in a Marxist ideological dogma. It'll be extremely hard to break out of something like that.

  • @joeslater8693
    @joeslater8693 Жыл бұрын

    Englebert was 4ft 7

  • @ekesandras1481

    @ekesandras1481

    Жыл бұрын

    his dictatorship was also very short: in 1933 he took power, a few months later he fought the Socialists in February 1934 and in July 1934 he was shot by Nazis who attempted a coup d'etat (that failed, albeit killing the Chancelor in his office)

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@ekesandras1481 Welcome to Austria, a place where 4 different socialist factions were fighting each other lmao.

  • @ahpjlm

    @ahpjlm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylerbozinovski427 Calling the Vaterländische Front and the Austrian Nazi party "socialist" is fucking retarded

  • @Gapball_
    @Gapball_5 ай бұрын

    Hehe this is just proof that the first and second republic of Austria isn't the same AT ALL

  • @wurzel9671
    @wurzel9671 Жыл бұрын

    6:20

  • @SwampOnaMountain
    @SwampOnaMountain Жыл бұрын

    Not the proudest part of ym countries history but by far not the worst

  • @KINGeorgesV
    @KINGeorgesV Жыл бұрын

    Sounds like the USA today

  • @ekesandras1481
    @ekesandras1481 Жыл бұрын

    The shooters from Schattendorf - some local farmers - got acquitted for self defense. They felt threatened by the large crowd of socialist demonstrators who had come to this small village for their protest. The verdict was based on a law that the socialists themselves had passed, when they were shortly in power after 1918. The jury couldn't find a majority for a conviction so the result was a not-proven verdict. Only the socialist newspapers said that there was political influence on the jury, but there was non. P.S.: the shooters of Schattendorf were not really sympathizers of the Christian Social Party, they were more monarchists and since this village is (until today) directly on the border with Hungary, they adhered more to the idea to join Hungary, to where this region belonged until 1921. Yes, there were German speaking village dwellers, who wanted to transfer there village to Hungary. Why? Because they liked the right wing Horthy govenment more than the government in Vienna. Those facts got forgotten and it was presented as a conspiracy from the conservative CSP party, but those had nothing to do with it. It was more a situation like those Orange marches in Northern Ireland, which got out of control.

  • @just_ducki3665

    @just_ducki3665

    Жыл бұрын

    Interesting how none of what you learn reqlly is the truth, depending on who you ask. One of my biggest turnoffs when it comes to politics and history, no matter how much you read someone can always say that youre wrong.

  • @hex2637

    @hex2637

    Жыл бұрын

    They felt threatened by a 6 year old boy and a disabled man? What are you saying? Why are you defending them?

  • @bruh-gs2eo

    @bruh-gs2eo

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@hex2637 Maybe that disabled man should have taken an alternate course to going to a random town to preach his ideology. Reminds me a lot of Redditors, actually

  • @maximiliankoch2593

    @maximiliankoch2593

    Жыл бұрын

    You're a revisionist with no clue what you're talking about.

  • @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926

    @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926

    11 ай бұрын

    @@bruh-gs2eo 13 year old moment ☕

  • @Siddingsby
    @Siddingsby Жыл бұрын

    15:58 is this photo staged?

  • @stekra3159
    @stekra3159 Жыл бұрын

    To give you an idea of the attitude of the SPÖ at the time. Hier is a quote "Mit am Haufen Bauernschädel kannst keine Socialistische Revolutions machen." With a bunch of stubborn presents you can't do a socialist revolution.

  • @niknitro8751

    @niknitro8751

    Жыл бұрын

    Well it seems like they knew their fellow Austrians very well this holds true to this day. At least Graz and Vienna are a bit wiser.

  • @ekesandras1481

    @ekesandras1481

    Жыл бұрын

    because the small family farmers in Austria were owners of their land since many generations not dependent tenants of some aristocratic Lord, unlike in Hungary, and they had no motivation to any kind of land reform or redistribution of land. The idea of any form of collective farming sounded even worse to them. Actually the farmers profited very much during the years of hyperinflation. Formerly rich city dwellers came to the country side and traded fur coats or expensive carpets for a bag of potatoes and some cheese or bacon. The farmers simply had no motivation for any form of socialism. And the rural population was also much more catholic and disliked the atheist propaganda of the socialists.

  • @AEIOU05

    @AEIOU05

    Жыл бұрын

    @@niknitro8751 Vienna is a shithole and Stalin-Graz is going bankrupt, Dafq you talking about?

  • @kieferkarpfen6897
    @kieferkarpfen6897 Жыл бұрын

    Yeah the american plan of democratization work really good in central and eastern euroope.

  • @jamesannetts4449
    @jamesannetts4449 Жыл бұрын

    bruh

  • @jml732
    @jml732 Жыл бұрын

    The -Germans- Chadli. Ch 🇨🇭 a 🇦🇹 d 🇩🇪 li 🇱🇮

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    Luxembourg too.

  • @EmperorHirohito-kv2uc
    @EmperorHirohito-kv2uc Жыл бұрын

    0:18 Crimea is Ukraine

  • @ahpjlm

    @ahpjlm

    Жыл бұрын

    De facto no

  • @tufikum2633
    @tufikum263311 ай бұрын

    Dollfuss wanted an authoritarian, German, Catholic and socially appeased Austria. He wasn't really fascist, he was more like Salazar or Franco.

  • @phucminh7377

    @phucminh7377

    7 ай бұрын

    Sound like fascism to me. And yes, I considered Franco and Salazar regime fascist too.

  • @tufikum2633

    @tufikum2633

    7 ай бұрын

    Maybe, depends on your definition of fascism. I think even from a Marxist perspective these regimes would be qualified reactionary, not fascist. In my opinion, Hitlerism or Italian Fascism distinguish themselves by putting the State or the Party above everything. While in Austria or Portugal or Tiso's Slovakia God was the ultimate authority These regimes also never pretended to represent the working class and the economy was never regulated or planned in the way Germany was. Austrian Nationalsocialists were terribly hostile to the Dollfuss state to the point that they preferred the Socialists over him ("Rather Red than Black"). How do you explain this antagonism?

  • @beautifulmedic3725
    @beautifulmedic372511 ай бұрын

    0:19 using map where Ukraine is without Crimia is gay

  • @Raqiet
    @RaqietАй бұрын

    people loved dollfuss he was a small guy but nice and friendly which was good. Hes also chilling with Mussolini in heaven right now which is good and yeah

  • @AEIOU05
    @AEIOU05 Жыл бұрын

    Dollfuss was right in what he did, since the socialists were a Marxist threat that planned to turn Austria into a socialist dictatorship. They planned a coup from day one but were unable to gain the support of the rural population in Austria, with their centers of support being Vienna and some industrial cities such as Steyr and parts of Styria. Due to infighting and lack of cohesion (an infamous and recurring trait of the Austrian socialists to this day). They screwed up their biggest opportunity in 1933 and in February 1934 some rogue members of their paramilitary wing took it upon themselves to instigate their „civil war” by shooting at Austrian gendarmerie at the Hotel Schiff. The socialist leadership was so petty that some prominent members even collaborated with the Nazis in order to snub the Ständestaat, with their leader Karl Renner openly endorsing the Anschluss and never speaking ill of the Nazi regime and even denying holocaust survivors their possessions immediately after ww2 (he was a rampant antisemite). Meanwhile Leopold Figl, prominent fatherland front leader and later chancellor, was tormented in a concentration camp alongside most of his fellow party members. It isn’t all black and white as many historians like you to believe.

  • @ferreus
    @ferreus Жыл бұрын

    Dollfuß was a hero

  • @jackknall9966
    @jackknall9966 Жыл бұрын

    awful pronounciation of Korneuburg 😭

  • @TopLists

    @TopLists

    Жыл бұрын

    awful pronunciation of korenburg

  • @Sir.suspicious
    @Sir.suspicious Жыл бұрын

    Dolfuss my beloved

  • @iMakz07
    @iMakz07 Жыл бұрын

    RIP Bozo. Won't be missed.

  • @tylerbozinovski427
    @tylerbozinovski427 Жыл бұрын

    Why do you refer to many of Austria's political parties as "bourgeois"? Are you a Marxist sympathiser or something? The corporatist regime in Austria was anything but "bourgeois" also.

  • @hex2637

    @hex2637

    Жыл бұрын

    How can a corporatist regime be anything but bourgeois lmao

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@hex2637 The leader was a Peasant who took part in unions and welfare schemes. It was nowhere near that nonsense.

  • @Cmokshofra

    @Cmokshofra

    Жыл бұрын

    Corporism is the definition of bourgeois lol

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cmokshofra You do not understand what corporatism is, you assume it is companies running the government, through proxies, however in the Austrian case it is preventing any strife through bringing both parties together. It is the fallacy of equivocation.

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Cmokshofra And to add onto what the other guy said, a corporatist regime is one where the government basically runs the corporations and controls them.

  • @pedroclaussen2254
    @pedroclaussen2254 Жыл бұрын

    Dolfuss, great man, may he rest in peace

  • @niknitro8751

    @niknitro8751

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a traitor, a murderer and the and the lowest form of human life. He laid the groundwork for the Nazis to take over and all just because he only was only 1,50m (4'11) tall.

  • @hex2637

    @hex2637

    Жыл бұрын

    you misspelled piss

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen!

  • @Mr.barba97

    @Mr.barba97

    Жыл бұрын

    Is he not the bad guy lol? U like Mussolini too?

  • @AEIOU05

    @AEIOU05

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hex2637 found the Nazi

  • @sithersproductions
    @sithersproductions Жыл бұрын

    Long live Dolfuss

  • @Mr.barba97

    @Mr.barba97

    Жыл бұрын

    ? I don’t understand

  • @sithersproductions

    @sithersproductions

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Mr.barba97 He was a hero against the Nazis as well as the Bolsheviks

  • @yvonetubla7682
    @yvonetubla7682 Жыл бұрын

    dolfuss was a hero

  • @deprimeretchetah1416

    @deprimeretchetah1416

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @yvonetubla7682

    @yvonetubla7682

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deprimeretchetah1416 yes he was little zoomer

  • @John_Kish

    @John_Kish

    Ай бұрын

    @@deprimeretchetah1416yes

  • @farwynd2925
    @farwynd2925 Жыл бұрын

    POLE

  • @koolergandalf1179

    @koolergandalf1179

    Жыл бұрын

    Explain

  • @tysonwastaken
    @tysonwastaken Жыл бұрын

    in my history class they made austria look like a victim but in reality they deserved it

  • @LuKing2

    @LuKing2

    Жыл бұрын

    How they victimise Austria specifically? They played a pretty agressive role in both world wars

  • @kieferkarpfen6897

    @kieferkarpfen6897

    Жыл бұрын

    Victim of whom?

  • @tysonwastaken

    @tysonwastaken

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kieferkarpfen6897 germany

  • @tysonwastaken

    @tysonwastaken

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LuKing2 just in ww2 they said that germany invaded austria and they mentioned austria once in my history class for ww1 american education is shit

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@LuKing2 Both? I mean sure the first one but the second?

  • @Languslangus
    @Languslangus Жыл бұрын

  • @kaycey7361
    @kaycey7361 Жыл бұрын

    You are talking about a piece of paper or the blood that runs through my viens - hitler, rise of evil ( movie) All Germans are part of same family and anschluss is more legal than england and scotland living together.