TWO MONTHS AFTER ASPERGER returned from his practicum, agents of Hitler’s Schutzstaffel burst into the Chancellery building in Vienna disguised as police officers. Panicked members of the cabinet hid themselves behind thin doors that proved no match for the SS men, who smashed through them with rifle butts as they advanced on the apartment where Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss had taken refuge. Simultaneously, eight Nazis took over the main radio station in the city. They shot the station manager, killed a radio actor with a hand grenade, and forced a newscaster to go on the air and declare that
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