Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightly injured by crashing glass from a broken window. Later, the crowd made a bonfire in St. Stephen's Square, burned a small crucifix, a painting of the Virgin Mary and a portrait of the Cardinal, scrawled on the walls of the palace: "Away with the priests! To Dachau* with Innitzer!" From the second story of a nearby canons' residence, brown-shirts threw a priest out of a win dow, injuring him seriously...
...Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich) can hardly be less than 50,000 and is probably more...