sentences:  The "League of Jewish Front Soldiers" ("Bund Juedischer Frontsoldaten"), the largest of several Jewish defense paramilitaries active in Austria at the time, was incorporated into the Fatherland Front.While the Front's aim was to unite all Austrians, superseding all political parties, social and economic interest groups (including trade unions), it only enjoyed the support of certain parts of the society.It was mainly backed by the Catholic church, the Austrian bureaucracy and military, most of the rural population—including both landowners and peasants—(with its centre of gravity in western Austria), some loyalists to the Habsburg dynasty, and a significant part of the large Jewish community of Vienna.