History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Publication Date: Friday, June 17, 1938
Historical Event: Germany Annexes Austria
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: (The Wilmington) Evening Journal-Every Evening/(The Wilmington) Journal-Every Evening
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: INS
Article Text: LONDON. June 17 (INS).—Nazi officials are holding Baron Louis de Rothschild prisoner in Vienna "for ransom," amounting to about $10,000,000, the London Daily Herald charged today.

An undated story published by the newspaper said representations have been made to the continental Rothschilds for release of the baron, who dropped from sight at the time of Germany's annexation of Austria.

The paper said negotiations are now under way to purchase his release. It added:

"The Nazis are making the ransom demand on the pretext of a claim against the baron in connection with the Credit Anstalt Bank of which he was president at the time of its collapse in 1931. They call the ransom compensation".
History Unfolded Contributor: Patricia P.
Location of Research: Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)

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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