In the Austrian Civil War that broke out on February 12, 1934, the bodies of the victims, including government troops and police officers and workers, who were shot to death, lie on the steps of the "Karl-Marx-Hof" in Vienna.

　The bodies of the victims of government troops and police officers and workers who were shot to death lie on the steps of the "Karl-Marx-Hof" in Vienna during the Austrian Civil War, which broke out on February 12, 1934. The fighting continued for about three days, mainly in the Karl-Marx-Hof, the Reumannhof, the Sandreiten, and the Ottakring Workers' Quarters. The German SS, in response, estimated the death toll at 196 killed and 319 wounded. British journalists estimated the death toll at 1,500 to 2,000 killed and 5,000 wounded.

 The Austrian Civil War broke out in the early morning hours of February 12, 1934, when shots were fired during an attack on a building owned by the Social Democratic Party in Linz, Upper Austria. The Social Democratic Labor Party's paramilitary organization, the Union for the Defense of the Republic, rose up against the Dorfus regime. The Social Democratic Party in Vienna countered by calling a general strike, but years of unemployment and abject poverty prevented workers from rising up in large numbers.

　On March 5, 1933, the fascist regime of Chancellor Engelbert Dorfus carried out a coup d'etat. Under the Law for the Realization of the Wartime Economy, the dictatorship abolished freedom of the press, restricted freedom of assembly, abolished jury trials, banned trikes in many industries under threat of punishment, abolished labor chambers and weakened employment protection laws, modified existing collective bargaining agreements, reduced wages and unemployment benefits, and gave the police political Martial law was declared on February 12, 1934, and all cultural and other organizations of the Social Democratic Labor Party, the Free Trade Unions, and the Social Democrats were dismantled. 9 people were executed by military court-martial beginning February 14.