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Police Guards to Be Stationed at Homes of Jewish Authors in Vienna Owing to Nazi Threats

February 7, 1933
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Permanent police guards will in the future be stationed before the homes of Jewish authors, according to a decision of the police department yesterday.

This precaution was decided upon following the attack on Saturday upon Dr. Rose Meller, a physican, who is also a dramatist and a poet.

It is feared that the attack on Dr. Meller is part of an organized plan to kill Jewish writers. The police investigation has failed to establish whether the attacks are planned on Jews regardless of their political affiliation or whether they are intended for those who lean toward the left.

The Nazi press admits it is possible that fanatical Nazi individuals are planning the murder of Jewish writers because they oppose the so-called Jewish domination of German art.

Dr. Meller was stabbed four times on Saturday afternoon by a young Nazi, who represented himself as a patient, seeking examination. When Dr. Meller prepared to examine him, he drew his knife and stabbed her, shouting the while: “I come from the Brown House to rescue German literature.”

Felix Salten and Sil Vara are among the Jews on the Nazi proscribed list.

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