ABSTRACT
In its second phase, from about 1939, the Austrian Resistance was based on the great political camps of the Catholics and the Conservative forces that had in considerable part had a close relationship with the past authoritarian regime of Schuschnigg and Dollfuss. By the end of 1943 the last central post of the KP that had attempted to assume the leadership for all of Austria had been wiped out, and the KP was no longer able to form a network with a central direction in Austria. After the Gestapo had broken up the last cells of the centrally directed organization of the KP and arrested the district leader of its Vienna network, Joseph Wiplinger, along with other leaders, the party seemed to be collapsing in Austria. The second phase of the Austrian Resistance, came to an end in the fall of 1941.
