The confiscation to-day by the police of copies of the Austrian Hitlerist paper, the “Kampfruf”, for containing a cartoon showing Jews dangling from the lamp-posts in one of the principal Vienna streets, the Ringstrassenallee, declaring that this is what will happen when the Hitlerist Government is formed, nearly resulted in anti-Jewish outbreaks in the streets of Vienna. When the police seized copies of the paper in the possession of the street vendors, Jews walking in the streets were set upon and only the energetic action of the police saved them and prevented serious trouble.
Perish Judea! Hang the Jews from the lamp-posts is one of the slogans of the Hitlerists in Germany and Austria, and cartoons showing Jews dangling from the lamp-posts have appeared in numbers of Hitlerist papers in both countries. At the time of the demonstrations against the “All Quiet” film, crowds of Hitlerists marched through the streets of Berlin and Vienna shouting the slogan. The extent of the anti-Jewish feeling in Vienna was demonstrated at that time by the vast crowds of Hitlerists who tried to invade the Jewish quarter where the film was being shown, and required about three thousand police, mounted and on foot, and bearing arms, to disperse them.
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