Word: muniching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under orders from Munich and Berlin, Austrian Nazis went to work last week. Attempts were made to assassinate at least ten high Austrian officials. Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk...
Erupting in Munich last week uniformed Nazi storm troops with a will-to-bludgeons broke up the Catholic Journeymen's Congress, prevented Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, from celebrating a pontifical high mass and injured severely a dozen Catholic journeymen delegates. Dead after the affray, apparently from a stroke brought on by the excitement, was Prelate Zinser of Mainz...
...pneumonia; in Murnau, Germany. After retiring from partnership in his father's firm in 1901, he went abroad to live, devoted his wealth to literature and music. Best known Loeb benefactions: Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art, the Loeb Classical Library, the Psychiatric Experimental Institute in Munich...
...every telegraph pole from Munich to Berlin the head of a prominent Jew must be stuck...
...over Germany similar pyres blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...