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...motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons of Death | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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