Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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That night the Cardinal could hear the mob gathering again in St. Stephen's Square. He did not look out to see their fireworks or watch them brandish miniature gibbets. But he heard their shouts: "Innitzer to Dachau...
...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...