Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsible for the elimination of Jewish economic life in Austria will be hard-hitting Josef Bürckel, a non-Austrian, known for his success in taming Catholics in the Saar-Palatinate. Last week Herr Bürckel received from Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Austria which reduce the position of Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Governor of Austria who paved the way for Hitler's triumph there, to that of a subordinate...
...Vienna, Nazis began to purge the 400-year-old Austrian National Library, one of the world's best (1,200,000 volumes), announced that all non-Aryan books would be burned. In Williamstown, Mass., a group of Williams College students, including a grandson of Woodrow Wilson and the editor of the college paper, promptly cabled an offer to buy all the banned books to prevent their being burned. Brooklyn's Borough President Raymond Ingersoll cabled that Brooklyn's public library would be glad to have them, offered to pay transportation costs...
Czech authorities fed and clothed the 51, kept them sheltered in Bratislava for two days. But the Czechs feared that further charity to Jews would encourage Austrian Nazis to drive Jews in thousands over into Czechoslovakia. Therefore, the Czechs piled the Jews into trucks at night, dumped them over into Hungary...
...this was a single, small, dramatic incident in what is apparently a ruthless Nazi drive to strip as many Austrian Jews as possible of their possessions, then further harass them by "expelling" them to neighboring countries which cannot support penniless refugees, are forced to acts of "expelling" Jews back into Greater Germany...
...When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in the composition of music. Unmarried, and with no house of his own, he lived throughout his working life in lodgings or with friends. At his death, his principal personal effects (inherited by Brother Ferdinand) consisted of one writing desk and, within it, an enormous mass of manuscript music...