United States High Commissioner for Austria, alter J. Donnelly, today informed Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish Committee, that the film “The Immortal Beloved” which precipitated an anti-Semitic riot in Salzburg last month, has been banned in the American zone of Austria. Mr. Blaustein protested to Mr. Donnelly when the news of the rioting reached the United States.
“I need not tell you how much I regret this incident which I trust can now be settled in a spirit of mutual confidence and cooperation,” the U.S. High Commissioner said in a message to Mr. Blaustein. The riot broke out when about 60 former members of Nazi youth organizations attacked a group of Jews who were protesting the showing of the film produced by the notorious Nazi Veit Harlan. Thirty Jews were injured, about 12 seriously.
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