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...German Austria's celebration-weary populace worked hard last week to keep up the enthusiasm required by Naziism, their new Nazi officials embarked on what the Vienna Nazi press jokingly called "the great spring cleaning"-the wholesale purge of Jews, monarchists, Schuschnigg supporters, Socialist and Communist workers...
Arrests. The Vienna Nazi press jubilantly reported that thousands of deserted automobiles had piled up along the frontiers as Jews, Catholics and Schuschnigg supporters were caught trying to escape. Typical of the thoroughness with which Nazi adherents had prepared for "the day" was the fact that 24 hours after Nazification the Nazi guard at the remotest frontier post was armed with a fully tabulated, thumb-indexed book of many thousand names on the Nazi black list, which he checked against the passports of those wishing to cross. Most sensational arrest in Jewish financial circles was that of retired Banker Baron...
Still under "protective arrest" were former Chancellor Schuschnigg and former President Wilhelm Miklas, the latter permitted to go out only to church, escorted by Storm Troopers...
...Baiting. Virtually all Jewish department stores, cafés and shops were taken over by Nazis. Hapless Jews were set to work scrubbing Fatherland Front posters off lampposts, Schuschnigg plebiscite slogans off sidewalks. Leering young Nazis jibed, "Who has found work for Jews? Adolf Hitler!" When Jews timidly protested against over 100 unwarranted seizures of their property by ruffians in Nazi uniforms, Nazi police officials explained that persons carrying on such unauthorized expropriations were "Communists who in some manner had managed to get themselves disguised in Nazi uniforms." The whole stock of two large department stores had been expropriated meanwhile...
...week's end the jails were filled to overflowing. Nazi officials took over the Northwest Railway Station, unused for traffic, converted it into a makeshift concentration camp. Crucifixes on the walls of devout Kurt Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front Headquarters, which had now become Nazi Headquarters, were torn down by Nazis who stuck them up with guffaws in the water closets...