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140 Jews Dying in Vienna Daily
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- Death Rate Skyrockets From Normal of 4 a Day Since Nazi Occupation
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- Tuesday, March 22, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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GENEVA, March 22 (A.P.)—The World Jewish Congress said today the Jewish death rate in Vienna, based on the number of funerals held in Jewish cemeteries, has risen from an average of four daily to 140.
The congress, in a general statement which it held to reflect authentically conditions in Austria, said "Jews are being steadily deprived of means to fight misery which every day is becoming more atrocious.'
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1,700 Suicides.
GENEVA, March 22.—1,700 Viennese Jews have themselves since Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's conquest of Austria, the world Jewish congress announced here.
The general secretariat of the League of Nations was informed from Berlin that Austria must no longer be considered a member of the League.
Nazis are reported attempting a veritable pogram to reduce Austria's Jews in six weeks to the pitiful status they occupy after five Nazi years in Germany.
Eight hundred thousand Jews, 200,000 of them registered as orthodox and 600,000 Jews only by the rigid Nuremberg decrees, are the destined victims.
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Freud Menaced, Ill.
VIENNA, March 22 (A.P.)—Sigmund Freud, eighty-two-year-old "father of psychoanalysis," is seriously ill tonight, close friends said, after a visit of secret Nazi police to his home.
The informants said the police took the Jewish scientist's passports and closed the doors of his home. Offices of the company which has published Freud's books also were closed.
Freud was ill when Adolf Hitler absorbed Austria into the German realm and for several days was not told of the drastic changes affecting his country and his race.
Indications that Hitler hopes to win Austrian Socialists to the Nazi cause by offering them work were given in a ceremony at the Vienna City Hall.
[The Socialists' conflict with the Dollfuss regime in Austria flared into a local civil war in Vienna in February, 1934. Hundreds were killed, and the Socialists were reduced to political impotence. Most of the Vienna workers, whom the party represented, rallied to the support of Kurt Schuschnigg in his last days as chancellor, however.]
The plebiscite propaganda drive will start Thursday with several chieftains making personal appearances and speeches. [The April 10 plebiscite was called by Fuehrer Hitler so the Austrian people might indorse the Austrian-German union.]
"Bavarian emergency kitchens" are feeding thousands of Viennese poor, whom newspapers picture in deepest want. Minor government workers' organizations have received $36,000 for charitable purposes and promises of free vacations. It was
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Bibliography
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Fuchs, Martin. Showdown in Vienna: The Death of Austria. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1939.
Low, Alfred. The Anschluss Movement, 1931-1938, and the Great Powers. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1985.
Wagner, Dieter. Anschluss: The Week Hitler Seized Vienna. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1971.
Wimmer, Adi. Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
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