Assassination of Austrian Premier Engelbert Dollfuss in Austria. Dollfuss with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Premier Gyula Gömbös of Hungary, and other dignitaries outside a building. They sign an agreement in Rome, Italy. The dead body of Dollfuss in a coffin after his assassination by ten Austrian Nazis. People gather to view the body.
Peasants celebrate Saint John's Day in Vienna, Austria. Peasants gather in large number during night time with lit torches in their hands at a traditional ceremony.
President Miklas drives first nail into the 'Soldier of Iron', a huge wooden statue in Vienna, Austria to raise funds for building a monument honoring the country's fallen heroes. People gather in large numbers at the eve.
Austrian troops prepare to resist the Nazi German forces in Vienna, Austria. The Austrian Home Guard are attached to regular military forces of the nation to strengthen fighting units. Austrian soldiers are issued rifles which were loaded on a truck. The soldiers with rifles slung over their shoulders. An Austrian officer reviews his troops.
German Professor Eugen Sänger conceived of a rocket-propelled airplane in 1934. View of his sketches and notes.View of a workshop, close to his home, where Sänger developed his ideas. It is a nondescript building with wooden exterior and "Deutsche Raketenflug-Werft, Vien1934" (German Rocketflight shipyard, Vienna,1934) scrawled on its door. Professor Sänger and an assistant are seen in doorway of the workshop. Interior views of machinery. Blueprint cross-section of Sängers first Rocket motor (the S.R.1) from 1932. Drawing of test facility arrangement from 1932. Drawing of the S.R.2 rocket motor from 1933, with high pressure liquid oxygen cooling. Drawing of testing apparatus and arrangement from 1933, including Bosch fuel injection pump.
Drawings of Professor Eugen Sänger's S.R.9 Rocket motor from July 24, 1934. Thrust force graphs for the S.R.8 and S.R.9 obtained during burn tests. The S.R.10 rocket motor designs of August 1934, one with a circular combustion chamber and another with cylindrical chamber. Experiments using a high-pressure oxygen tanks. A technician standing near a high pressure tank, and placing a tank into a larger container. Two men pouring liquid oxygen from a tank. High pressure oxygen cylinder and fueling containers standing outside Sänger's workshop in Vienna. A technician filling a container from high pressure tank.