!!!Legion, Österreichische

Legion, Oesterreichische, (Austrian Legion), para-military group of 
Austrian National-Socialists in Germany from 1933 onwards; 3,500 
members in August 1933, 9,000 members after the July Putsch in 1934, 
about 3,000 members in 1938; the Austrian authorities considered them 
a threat. Members returned to Austria in 1938, but never gained 
importance.

!Literature
B. F. Pauley, Der Weg in den Nationalsozialismus in 
Oesterreich, 1988.


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