- Headline
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Jews Fleeing From Austria
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, March 16, 1938
- Historical Event
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Germany Annexes Austria
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- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
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- Author/Byline
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- Article Text
- London, March 16 (U.P.)—Thousands of Austrian Jews are seeking to cross the frontier into Czechoslavakia, many without passports, reports which reached London said today.
Informants said that among Jews arrested by nazi storm troops at the frontier were Siegmund Bosel, Vienna financier, Karl Bondy, newspaper publisher of Vienna. In Bosel's motor car, it was asserted, the nazis found $70,000 worth of jewels, and in Bondy's clothes they found a large amount of money, sewn between cloth and lining.
It was said nazis were watching the frontier closely. Bosel made great sums during the World war. Bondy published anti-nazi newspapers, and the nazis as soon as they got control, confiscated his papers and, publishing them with a swastika cross in the title, embarked on a bitter anti-semitic campaign.
Several thousand abandoned automobiles have been found on the frontier and it was asserted authorities had confiscated several millions of schillings found on Jews trying to escape. (A schilling is quoted at 19 cents).
It was asserted Jews in the Bratislava frontier region of Czechoslovakia were aiding Austrian Jews across the border, but in some instances the refugees had to pay high prices for help. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Randall S.
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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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