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...Austria nothing else is quite so valuable as the Erzberg, Styria's great tawny mountain of iron ore. In the Erzberg nestle some 800,000,000 tons of iron. It belongs to Alpine Montan Gesellschaft and A. M. G. is controlled by the German Steel Trust of Fritz Thyssen, No. 1 contributor to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party funds. Unable to crack down on Thyssen in Germany, the Austrian Government last week sent soldiers to A. M. G.'s resident Director General Herr Anton Apold. Under his nose they shoved an order from the Ministry of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Iron Mountain Squeeze | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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