The huge protest is known as the July Revolt of 1927. To restore order police and army shot and killed 89 people and injured 600. On 14 July 1927 the shooters were acquitted and left-wing supporters began a massive protest during which the Ministry of Justice building was burned. In 1927, during a political clash in Schattendorf, an old man and a child were shot and killed by Heimwehr. Austria also became dependent on its neighbors for trade, particularly the newly formed Weimar Republic to the north. To make it worse, the newly landlocked Austria lost their ability to trade via the sea, causing their economic situation to collapse. Ethnic Germans were separated from Austrian lands as a result. The territory of Austria was greatly reduced to 25% of its original territory, forced to reduce the army to 30 000 and to pay war reparations. And as one of the defeated powers of WWI Austria was forced to signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

The Republic of German-Austria (Or Republik Deutschösterreich or Deutsch-Österreich) was formed in 1918 after the abdication of the Emperor Carl I with the Social Democrat Karl Renner as Chancellor of Austria.

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