DISORDER IN VIENNA
NAZI DEMONSTRATIONS
f (Received May 24, 1.40 p.m.) VIENNA, May 23. A hand-ball match in which Germany beat Aust»ia,:ls-6 lt was the occasion for violent Nazi demonstrations. The majority of the 40,000 people present were ignorant of the game and attended merely to make political demonstrations. . , ~ When the Germans scored thoy waved swastika flags, - yelled "Heil, Hitler!" and wildly applauded.,. When Austria scored they booed. After the game a crowd of 10,000 marched to the city shouting Nazi slogans and assaulting semitic-looking persons and invaded coffee houses. . The police at first were tolerant, but Bnally intervened most energetically. Mounted police charged repeatedly and several hundred arrests were made.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 10
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111DISORDER IN VIENNA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 10
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