Pro-Nazi Austrian newspapers today blamed American Jews for the fact that Austria’s nationalized bank, the Creditanstalt, has transferred to Switzerland some of its dollar assets.
The newspapers charged that “Jewish emigrants” who fled Austria to the United States in 1938 taking their property with them forced the bank to hide its assets in Switzerland because they attempted to attach its dollar assets in the United States for the “satisfaction of their financial claims, allegedly still unsettled in Austria.”
Similar attacks on naturalized American Jews who came from Austria have been made by various politicians in Austria, some of whom blame naturalized American Jews in the employ of the American High Commission here for many of the American anti-Nazi policies.
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