More than 4,000 Austrians, including many leading Austrian personalities took part today in a silent march from the former site of Gestapo headquarters to a memorial stone for the victims of the Nazi era.
After placing wreaths on the monument, speakers commemorated the burning of synagogues in Austria in 1938 and declared that the fight against anti-Semitism must be carried on without compromise.
Meanwhile, streets and bridges in various parts of Lower Austria were found smeared with swastikas today in the first instances of such vandalism in this country in more than a year. Police have so far been unable to apprehend the culprits.
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