The Archive · 1934

Plea for Forgiveness

Vienna, July 31, Panetta made a simple last staizam no murderer. T did not want to Kill Chancellor Dollfuss. beg Frau Dollfuss' forgiveness."

Holzweber exclaimed violently:

innocent. of murder, Express directions were given that no blood' was to flow. We believed that we would find Dr. Rintelen inside the Chancellery when we foreed our way in; at least, so we had been told the day before. I can only say that T acted out of my burning love for our fatherland."

'The official Vienna report of the execution says that both insurgents went to death in a manly. fashion with firm step and their heads held high. As the hangman sprung the trap from under their' feet, they

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