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True Crime Vienna
Assassins, Master Spies, and Deadly Conspiracies
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Welcome to Vienna, the glittering Imperial City of palaces, waltzes and coffeehouse elegance. But behind the gilded facades of the first district lies another Vienna — a city of assassins and spies, of poisoned pastries and burning courthouses, of scandals that shook an empire. On this walk we peel back the imperial veneer and follow the trail of the capital's most notorious crimes, standing on the very spots where history turned dark.
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The Verdict That Burned - Palace of Justice
Courthouse
Behind its serene Neo Renaissance facade, Vienna's Palace of Justice hides the memory of 15 July 1927, when a shocking acquittal of three killers sent a furious crowd to set the building ablaze, and police rifles left 89 protesters dead on the streets.
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Murder in Loge 2 - Burgtheater
Theater
On 8 May 1925, as the storm scene of Peer Gynt raged on stage, a young woman rose in a theatre box and fired six shots into Macedonian revolutionary Todor Panitsa — the only murder ever committed inside Vienna's grand Burgtheater.
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The Grey House (Landesgericht fur Strafsachen)
Courthouse
Behind the endless grey facade of Vienna's criminal court lies the deadliest room in the city: a converted storage chamber where the Nazi regime guillotined 1,219 people, and the courtyard where Austria carried out its very last execution in 1950.
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Former OPEC Headquarters (Universitatsring 10)
building
On 21 December 1975, Carlos the Jackal and his six person commando stormed the OPEC headquarters at this Ringstrasse address, murdering three people and seizing 62 hostages, including eleven of the world's most powerful oil ministers.
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Attack on the Emperor - Molker Bastei
Monument
The Molker Bastei is one of the last surviving ramparts of Vienna's demolished city walls, the same promenade where a Hungarian tailor drove a sharpened kitchen knife into young Emperor Franz Joseph's neck in 1853. Only a stiff uniform collar stood between the blade and the end of the Habsburg Empire.
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Former Hotel Klomser (Herrengasse 19)
building
Behind the baroque facade of the Palais Batthyány once operated the elegant Hotel Klomser, where in May 1913 Colonel Alfred Redl, the empire's own counterintelligence chief, was unmasked as Russia's master spy. Fellow officers left a loaded Browning pistol in his room and walked out, ending the greatest espionage scandal of the age with a single shot.
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Dollfuss Assassination - Federal Chancellery
building
Behind the Baroque facade of Austria's Federal Chancellery, Nazi putschists in stolen uniforms gunned down Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss on 25 July 1934, then left the dying dictator to bleed out on a sofa while refusing him a doctor and a priest.
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The Lucona Murders - Demel (Kohlmarkt 14)
Cafe
Behind the gilded windows of the emperor's favorite confectionery, its owner Udo Proksch plotted Austria's most notorious insurance fraud: in 1977 he had the freighter Lucona blown up for a 212 million schilling payout, sending six sailors to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
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