Austrian Civil War many hundreds suffered injury. Surprisingly, the violence soon died down and the factions took their battle from the streets back into the political institutions. However, the travails of the First Republic only got worse in the following years. The Great Depression also showed its effects in Austria, resulting in high unemployment and massive inflation. In addition, from 1933 — the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany — National Socialist sympathisers (who wanted a unification of Austria with Hitler's Germany) threatened the Austrian state from within. On 4 March 1933, Christian Social Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß suspended the Austrian Parliament. In
Freedom Party of Austria narrow third place, and entered government as a junior partner in a coalition with the ÖVP, with ÖVP leader Sebastian Kurz as chancellor. Among other things, the party supports the unification of South Tyrol (Italy) with Tyrol (Austria), and, therefore, the South Tyrolean secessionist movement, which notably includes its South Tyrolean sister party Die Freiheitlichen. The FPÖ is a descendant of the pan-German and national liberal camp ("Lager") dating back to the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. During the interwar era, the national liberal camp (gathered in the Greater German People's Party) fought against the mutually-hostile Christian Social