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Fatherland Front
Austrofascist political party
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The Fatherland Front was the ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria. It claimed to be a nonpartisan movement, and aimed to unite all the people of Austria, overcoming political and social divisions. Established on 20 May 1933 by Christian Social Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss as the only legally permitted party in the country, it was aligned with the Catholic Church, and did not advocate any racial ideology. A right-wing conservative, authoritarian, nationalist, corporatist, and Catholic organisation, it advocated independence from Germany on the basis of protecting Austria's Catholic religious identity from what they considered a Protestant-dominated German state.
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