Jewish Students Leap from Windows to Escape Nazis

Grave anti-Semitic disturbances broke out at the University of Vienna this morning when Austrian student followers of Hitler began a sudden attack on Jewish men and women students at the institution. Several Jewish students, including a number of women, were injured, particularly through jumping from windows because the Nazis, before beginning their attack, had blockaded all exits from the university buildings. The rioting spread from the university building to the Chemical, Medical and Anatomic Institutes.

Several Socialist students were also injured in the disturbances. Only the intervention of police and a fire brigade enabled the blockaded students to escape.

Seven Jewish students were arrested this afternoon following accusations in the Nazi press that sixteen Nazi students had been gravely injured in the melee. The Nazi papers charged that Jewish “Marxists” instigated the clash.

AMERICAN STUDENTS INJURED

Nine American students were among the wounded in the clashes. Twelve students, the majority of them Nazis, were arrested because they resisted the police, who used their automobiles in dispersing the crowds which gathered.

The injuries the Jewish students sustained were mostly from “knuckledusters,” leaded whips and chains used by the Nazis. As a result of the rioting, the Anatomic Institute has been closed.

The American Embassy is expected to intervene in the case. Other embassies are also expected to follow suit since over thirty foreign students, including Poles and Hungarians, were injured. Several cases of severe spinal injuries were reported among the women students and many of the injured received broken legs in their desperate leaps through windows to escape their tormentors.