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Portrait of Engelbert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (1932-1934).In his short tenure in office, Dolfuss rapidly developed Austria towards a single-party state led by the Patriotic Front (Vaterlandische Front), a party modelled upon both Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party in Italy, as well as Catholic traditionalist parties elsewhere in Europe. Dolfuss was committed to rebuilding Austria and maintaining it as independent from what he regarded as a Prussian-dominated, and under National Socialism "heathen"-dominated Germany. He did not deny that a German nation existed in a cultural sense, and indeed noted that Austria's Hapsburg's in the past led Germany when it was the Holy Roman Empire. He insisted that any unification of Austria to Germany would require a federal German state where Austria and the other federal states could maintain substantial autonomy, to avoid any powerful state (i.e. Prussia) from dominating over them.
Dolfuss and the Fatherland's Front supporters regarded the National Socialists' use of pagan Germanic symbols and usage of elements of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche who was fiercely anti-Christian was seen as a sign of the National Socialists' anti-Christian nature that they regarded as unacceptable for the Catholic people of Austria. He sought alliance with Italy to receive protection from Italy from a potential German attempt to take over the country, as well as seeking alliance with Hungary under its new pro-fascist Prime Minister Gyula Gombos who agreed.
Ultimately, Dolfuss did not live long to see his regime solidify as he was assassinated in 1934 by members of the Austrian branch of the National Socialist Party in Germany.
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A bunch of German StuG III's were used by Syria until the Six Day War, at least. They still have some. Oh crap I meant to put this on the Iraqi Bf-109. Well, the fact remains.
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I'm sure the spirit of Engelbert Dolfuss will appreciate that.
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Heh! Hopefully so. But I thought that was really interesting. There were a ton of Panzer IVs that survived WWII and were used postwar, but were scrapped!!
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In the spirit of that Iraqi Me-109 and Dolfuss, there were old Italian tanks from World War II used in Iraq up to the 1960s, there's a picture of Saddam HusseinΒ and several others standing around an old Italian tank being used by the Ba'athists in their coup d'etat in 1963.
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Hehe! Whatever works. It's a good thing he didn't have King Tigers or all of his enemies would have heart attacks! They still have MP-40s, STG-44s, a few Kar98ks, and some other WWII weapons floating around the middle east. There's a couple videos of syrian rebels firing original STG-44s hoarded by syria after WWII. There was also a video posted of "5000 Ak-47s captured in an armory" but they were all STG-44s. WWII collector forums lit up a bit about that one. One time they found an idiot Taliban or Al-Qaeda guy or whoever carrying around an M1 Garand. It still works...
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I heard that the original Tiger tanks were useless wherever there was thick and deep mud, their big steel gear wheels got jammed and the tank crew would have to tear apart the whole track section just to unjam them.
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Well, it is true that you might have to take off 3 wheels to change 1 wheel. As for the gear wheels...MAN that would suck!! Peiper had a Tiger II and he survived the war. Tiger IIs were impervious to anti-tank weapons and to me their only true fault was the mileage of 1/2 a mile to the gallon.
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For me the King Tiger looks like an impressive weapon with the angled armoured turret, very modern. The original Tiger with its flat armour looks like the latest heavy tank design of an older era of tanks. The tread gear wheels look terrible on them. With better gear wheels the tanks would have been better. I've also heard that the Panther tanks had a stupid design of unprotected fuel tanks at the back of that tank - so basically a discouragement to the tank driver to turn their ass in retreat, but stupid overall (if what I've heard is correct).
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Well, these things were generally monsters. Monster tanks from Germany, endless numbers of tanks from the allies. Whenever the Germans destroyed a T-34, 10 more would replace it. That's what it seemed like, anyway. If I'm not mistaken, M4 Shermans just used regular gasoline, so when an 88mm round hit it the whole tank exploded sending the turret up into the air and the engine flying out the back. Assuming it got hit from the front. German tanks used diesel. I wonder if they realized that when they set one of the Bulge's parameters was to rely on captured enemy fuel to keep moving.
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Mass production of weapons was where the Axis could not keep up, even Germany that for a while was doing a good job. Indeed the Sherman tank was not a great tank, I am no expert but it looks like it had a bad armour design as there no angles in the shape of the armour on the tank and other measures to reduce the impact of hits. The Sherman beat better tanks because there were so damn many of them, again thanks to the Allies' superior capability in mass production of weapons.
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The Germans were going for quality over quantity. The quantity idea was also evidently existential in the heads of Germans, but in a different form. Instead of mass producing one type of medium tank, one type of tank destroyer, one type of medium bomber, one type of flak AA gun and so on, there were dozens of vehicles and weapons for the same or similar purpose. The only complete uniformity in the German military I can think of off hand was that every private got a Kar98k, Heer and SS.
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Quantity becomes a matter if you cannot make a decisive move against an enemy, when you can it is not a matter. Italy outnumbered British and Commonwealth forces in Egypt in 1940, but the British were able to pull off decisive moves to push the Italians back. Germany was tied in a three front war with large numbers of forces coming in all directions, it could not focus on one front without losing another and it could not make decisive moves, then quantity became a serious matter.
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Very interesting! Of all the chapters of contemporary History, this is the only one that interests me - did you know there was actually an animated short film about DollfuΓ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qtei6β¦
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The interwar period for Austria was a very troubled time, the loss of the Hapsburg monarchy as well as the previous vast territories held by the former Austria-Hungary left both the Austrian economy and the Austrian identity in crisis. Unlike Hungary that had an ethnic element, a substantial number of Austrians viewed the rump state of Austria as insufficient to exist, the options to them were to either form a common state with Bavaria separate from Germany (that seemed possible with the multiple separatist crises in Germany in the early 1920s), or later through incorporation into Germany.
However there were Austrians like Dolfuss who viewed the then-present state of Germany as a Prussian hegemony that was inherently hostile to Catholic interests. Memories of Bismarck's Kulturkampf in Prussia challenging Catholicism soured relations with Catholics in Germany and abroad.
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That's an interesting animated film, watched it all.Β
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