WEHRMACHT OFFICER KERL BIEDERMAN HANGED BY SS. ON THE BOARD, IT IS WRITTEN THAT: ' I HAVE MADE A PACK WITH THE BOLSHEVIK
WEHRMACHT OFFICER KERL BIEDERMAN HANGED BY SS. ON THE BOARD, IT IS WRITTEN THAT: ' I HAVE MADE A PACK WITH THE BOLSHEVIK
Wehrmacht officer Karl Biedermann hanged by SS.On the board , it is written that : "I have made a pact with the Bolscheviks ".
In February 1934, Biedermann was commander of a company of the “Freiwilligen Schutzkorps”, consisting of units from Heimwehr and auxiliary troops of the Bundesheer.
In this position he took part in the capture of Vienna Karl-Marx-Hof during the Austrian Civil War.
Karl-Marx-Hof was well known during the February Uprising (German:
Februaraufstand) of the 1934 Austrian Civil War Those insurgents engaged in the revolt barricaded themselves inside the building and were forced to surrender after the Austrian army, the police, and the Austrofascist paramilitary Heimwehr bombarded the site regardless of the unarmed dwellers, mainly worker families, with light artillery.
During the Anschluss, Karl-Marx-Hof was renamed Heiligenstädter Hof, but took its original name back in 1945
The Heimwehr / ’Home Guard’) or Heimatschutz ’Homeland Protection’) were a nationalist, initially paramilitary group operating within Austria during the 1920s and 1930s; they were similar in methods, organisation, and ideology to
Although opposed to parliamentary democracy,
the Heimwehr maintained a political wing known as the Heimatblock (Homeland Bloc),which cooperated with chanccelorconservative government.
In 1936, the Heimwehr was absorbed into the Fatherland Front by decree of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschniggand replaced by a militia supposedly less inclined towards uproar against the regime, the Frontmiliz.
After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March 1938, Biedermann joined the Wehrmacht. In 1940 he was promoted to Major. During World War II, he took part in the Battle of France, the Balkans Campaign
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