One of the principal aims of field marshal Goering’s visit to Vienna, the Vienna correspondent of the daily telegraph reports today, is to “check the pogrom spirit.”
The correspondent writes: “I learn from well-informed Nazi sources that one of Goering’s principal aims in Vienna is to check the pogrom spirit which is being encouraged in other quarters and is growing dangerously. Goering realized that foreign opinion, especially in america, was horrified at even the little it knows of what is happening in Vienna to the Jews and therefore wished to check plans attributed to Goebbels and Bueschel (Joseph Buerckel, Nazi commissar for Austria) to arouse enthusiasm before the plebiscite by turning Vienna mobs on to the Jews.”
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