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Austrian Provisional Government Includes Three Jews; Largest Number Ever Named to Cabinet

May 3, 1945
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The new Austrian provisional government headed by Dr. Karl Renner contains three Jews, Austrian circles here today pointed out. They said that this is the first time that so great a number of Jews were included in any Austrian cabinet.

The Jewish ministers are Dr. Adolph Sherf and Johann Koplenig, two of the four secretaries of state without portfolio and Ernst Fischer, minister of religion and education.

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