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Pope Saved Austrian Jews, Nazis Complain

June 24, 1934
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But for intercession of the Pope, the ### constitution today ### embody anti-Jewish ### the Fraenkische Tages### complained today.

### paper, stating that the ### of the Catholic Church had written Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria that the papal bull the Quadragesimo Anno, on which the Austrian constitution is based, does not permit the oppression of religious minorities, expresses astonishment at the Pope’s considering the Jews a religious minority and not being aware that they are “a bastard race having their own laws of blood and their religion is an expression of their racial inferiority and have nothing in common with the religious conceptions of Christians.”

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