AUSTRIA: Wicked Neighbors

Under orders from Munich and Berlin, Austrian Nazis went to work last week. Attempts were made to assassinate at least ten high Austrian officials. Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry...

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