TERROR IN VIENNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 7

TERROR IN VIENNA

SYNAGOGUES BLOWN UP & GUTTED HUNDREDS OF JEWS ARRESTED. THIRTY SUICIDES REPORTED. VIENNA, November 11. No fewer than 1500 Jews were searched throughout the day. About two-thirds were released and others imprisoned in concentration camps. The police made a house-to-house search arresting all male Jews under 60 years of age. Numbers are reported to have fled from Vienna to the for-Steel-helmeted Storm Troopers protected the Central Synagogue, in which are records the loss of which would inconvenience the authorities, but this was the only one of 21 synagogues and 71 prayer-houses unmolested. Some were gutted, others were half destroyed, but none can be used for worship. Bombs used for the destruction of some synagogues shattered nearby windows. By midnight all Jews had been examined at the police stations or in their homes. Thirty are believed to have been successful in attempts at suicide. Even a Jewish kindergarten was attacked It is announced that the raids revealed a large amount of arms, Communist literature, and illegal currency possessed by Jews. It was added that if they wish to avoid justified hashness Jews must get out as quickly as possible. DENIALS BY GOEBBELS ATTACKS NOT ORGANISED. “MERELY SPONTANEOUS OUTBURSTS." (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) BERLIN. November 11. Dr Goebbels repudiates the assertion that the anti-Jewish attacks were organised and says they were merely spontaneous outbursts. There was no plundering or injury to Jews. The police were not instructed to remain passive.”