A leading official of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (OEGB) said this week that the American NBC-TV series “Holocaust” has convinced the majority of Austrians that horrors of a Nazi rule must not occur again. Alfred Stroer, a union secretary, made this statement during a banquet on the Austrian resistance to the invasion of the country by Nazi troops on March 13, 1938.
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