Although the Austrian regime headed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg has granted enormous subsidies to the Catholic and Protestant churches, not a single cent has been assigned for Jewish worship, despite repeated intervention by the Jewish community.
The new state budget made public yesterday reveals that 15,000,000 schillings has been assigned to the Catholics and 600,000 schillings to the Protestants, while the Jews were entirely ignored. The Jewish community is particularly aroused by the discrimination in view of the fact that Jews pay heavy taxes and are twice the number of Protestants in Austria.
Former governments granted subsidies to the religious communities on the basis of their numbers in the population.
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