"Ein Volk! Ein Reich!" Was the rallying cry of the massive band of German Austrians who waved the Black Red and Gold flag. The men were led by the middle-class liberal students of the GGNP. Pan-Germanism was rapidly gaining traction in ethnically German lands, and the success of the GGNP in Bavaria and Prussia with the rise of the Greater German Confederation only emboldened the young revolutionaries. However the Habsburg had denied them even their constitutional right of representation in the Austrian Reichstag, even while the Habsburg offered other lesser, "Mongrel" ethnicites greater rights and autonomy. Such a double-standard would not stand.

What was merely a reading of the constitution of the new Greater German Confederation turned into a mass grumbling of the discontented masses of Austria. Many were inspired by the success of their Northern and Southern brethren, while young men grumbled at Austria's mass conscription policies and others still expressed discontent at the Habsburg " race traitors " catering. More and more gathered and more and more began to speak of the so-called " tyranny " of the Habsburg. Soon many began to suggest that they merely storm the Austrian Palace and Reichstag like their successful brothers in Northern Germany. If they could do it, why not them? After-all, the police were occupied with angry Albanians and much of the Austrian army was at the front.
Soon, over 300,000 men and even a few women stormed across the streets of Vienna. Some marched in a order manner, while others threw torches into white marbled governmental buildings and looted whatever seemed valuable. However the majority of the mob spread like wildfire in the direction of the Habsburg Palace. A few police units joined the discontented as their presented their ultimatum to all the Empire: They wanted amendments to the constitution enacting more liberal policies, full representation for the GGNP and other such Liberal parties as well as Socialist parties and for the Austrian Empire to enter talks with the Confederation involving entry; preferably without it's non German lands.







