The Austrian Press Council will soon discuss a protest by the Jewish community about the series, “Jews in Austria,” by the Viennese mass daily, Kronenzeitung, political sources said today. The series had prompted numerous protests by several newspapers. The Arbeiterzeitung (Socialist), Volksstimme (Communist), and Wochenpresse (Liberal) condemned the series as “anti-Semitic.”
In an article, the author of the series, Victor Reimann, a former Nazi, denounced his critics as “products of wild agitation by a minority of Jews in this country who are interested in continued anti-Semitism for their personal advantage.” Reimann had written that “one of the main causes for anti-Semitism is to be found in the Jews themselves,” adding, “It is because of his (the Jew’s) will to be different and to be separated from non-Jewish people.” The Jewish-Christian Coordination Committee said today that the series are “defamatory” and “harmful.”
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