RIP White Mouse.

[Frankie]

This probably won't get much attention (unless the kind going on in two other threads). But some of you might be familiar with this person:

http://news.yahoo.com/great-australian-wwii-heroine-dies-98-london-070650857.html

[Dartgod]

Interesting. Never heard of her before now.

[Halfcan]

Pretty sure there have been a couple of movies about her.

RIP

[Frankie]

Pretty sure there have been a couple of movies about her.

If not, there should be.

[Donger]

That sucks. She had more balls than the French. RIP White Mouse.

[CrazyPhuD]

LiveSteam got her didn't he?

[TimeForWasp]

cool:thumb:

[Frankie]

That sucks. She had more balls than the French. RIP White Mouse.

The French underground did a lot of heroic work. But go ahead and call all the French cowards.
:rolleyes:

[CrazyPhuD]

The French underground did a lot of heroic work. But go ahead and call all the French cowards.
:rolleyes:

Come on no one really thinks the French are cowards, they're not afraid to fly after all.

[Rain Man]

Never heard of her, but it sounds like she did some great work.

I have to ask, though. Storm troopers whipping jews in Austria in 1933? The Germans didn't have Austria in 1933 and were barely in power in Germany. Is the date wrong in the article or was there pre-war stuff going on that I didn't know about? Were there Austrian nazis in positions of power in Austria in 1933?

[Donger]

The French underground did a lot of heroic work. But go ahead and call all the French cowards.
:rolleyes:

Done.

[listopencil]

What a truly great lady. RIP and job well done. I salute you ma'am.

[listopencil]

The French underground did a lot of heroic work. But go ahead and call all the French cowards.
:rolleyes:


She wasn't French, she was Australian. The French still suck.

[listopencil]

Never heard of her, but it sounds like she did some great work.

I have to ask, though. Storm troopers whipping jews in Austria in 1933? The Germans didn't have Austria in 1933 and were barely in power in Germany. Is the date wrong in the article or was there pre-war stuff going on that I didn't know about? Were there Austrian nazis in positions of power in Austria in 1933?

I found this:

By the time Hitler wins power, in 1933, there is already a sizable Nazi party in Austria. In July 1934 they overreach themselves in attempting a coup which has disastrous results. Although they seize the chancellery in Vienna and murder the chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, the putsch ends in their surrender and execution. Hitler, delighted at the first news of their action but not himself actively involved, finds himself compelled to disown them.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=qhm


Could the article in the OP be referring to Austrian Nazis as Stormtoopers?

[listopencil]

4 March 1933
Allegedly self-inflicted paralysis of the Austrian parliament on the occasion of the resignation of the three Speakers of the House. The government intentionally ignores the possibility of recourse to constitutional measures to solve the parliamentary crisis.
7 March 1933
The beginning of the authoritarian regime based on an emergency act from 1917 – restriction of freedom of the press, ban on marches and public meetings.
31 March 1933
Countrywide ban of Socialist self-defense corps Republikanischer Schutzbund.
23 April 1933
Nazi electoral gains at the local elections in Innsbruck, with 41.1% of the vote now strongest party.
20 May 1933
Foundation of the Vaterländische Front, an allegedly nonpartisan mass organization of all Austrians »loyal to the government.«
26 May 1933
Austrian Communist Party outlawed.
27 May 1933
The Nazi government in Germany issues the »Tausendmarksperre« (Thousand Mark Ban) against Austria: German citizens travelling to Austria have to pay a fee of 1000 Reichmarks. Massive losses in the tourist industry. Onset of Nazi terrorist acts in Austria.
29 May 1933
Street fighting in Innsbruck between members of the Heimwehr and Nazi students, 43 injured. Army called in to restore order.
June 1933
During eighteen days of the month Nazi terrorist attacks of various kinds – »firecracker« or bomb explosions, arson, etc.
12 June 1933
A series of Nazi bomb attacks all over Austria.
19 June 1933
The NSDAP is banned.
24 June 1933
Nazi bomb attacks on the Vienna tram system and on the railway near Mürzzuschlag (Styria), "firecracker" explosions in Gmunden (Upper Austria) and Oberwölz (Styria).
19–20 August 1933
Third visit of Federal Chancellor Dollfuß to Mussolini, at Riccione. Dollfuß promises a tough course against the Social Democrats.
11 September 1933
Mass meeting of the Vaterländische Front at the Vienna Trabrennplatz (racing course). Programmatic speech by Dollfuß on the establishment of an authoritarian corporate state against Capitalism, Liberalism, Marxism, National Socialism, and the parliamentary system.
23 September 1933
Decree on the erection of internment camps for political prisoners, in Wöllersdorf and at other sites.
30 October 1933
Extraordinary Social Democratic Party Congress deletes the passage on the union with Germany from its program.
10 November 1933
Reintroduction of capital punishment.


http://en.doew.braintrust.at/m9sm101.html

[Rain Man]

Sounds like there were indeed Nazis in Austria at that early date, though it also sounds like "stormtroopers" may not have been the correct description for them. I'll cut her a break, though, since she engaged in firefights with Nazis.

[Ebolapox]

that's sad, may she RIP.

in other news, your mother is a whore fa-fa-fa-fa-frankie.

[LiveSteam]

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/156979_160120297365434_100001023953722_330291_6738472_s.jpg

Omaha Zoo RR 0-6-2t (Built in Linz Austria by Kraus in 1890) #395-104.

I took Bugeater for a cab ride on this beauty back when we were 16,17 years old. I grew up running it.
Was used by the Nazis threw out WWII. Loco was also used to make up death trains. as part of the final solution.

[listopencil]

Sounds like there were indeed Nazis in Austria at that early date, though it also sounds like "stormtroopers" may not have been the correct description for them. I'll cut her a break, though, since she engaged in firefights with Nazis.

Yep. Bad ass.