Completed the following sentence: The British had been quietly arming gendarmes, the so-called B-Gendarmerie, since 1945 and discussed the creation of a proper Austrian military in 1947. The Americans feared that Vienna could be the scene of another
<unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> They set up and filled emergency food dumps, and prepared to airlift supplies to Vienna while the government created a backup base in Salzburg. American command secretly trained the soldiers of an underground Austrian military at a rate of 200 men a week.<unk> The American command secretly trained the soldiers of an underground Austrian military at a rate of 200 men a week.<unk> B-Gendarmerie knowingly hired Wehrmacht veterans and VdU members; the denazification of Austria's 537,000 registered Nazis had largely ended in 1948.