Dr. Joseph Streser, formerly vice-dean of the Vienna Council of Lawyers, arrived here today after breaking out of a Vienna courtroom where he was to stand trial as an anti-Nazi and escaping across the Austrian frontier. He said he was arrested by the Nazis immediately after Chancellor Hitler’s troops marched into Austria. He was then conducted to a concentration camp and later returned to Vienna to stand trial.
His knowledge of the locale of the Vienna courts stood him in good stead, however, and he succeeded in slipping through his Nazi guards and fled. He escaped across the frontier and by a circuitous route managed to reach Poland.
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