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Austrian Jews Target of Terror

June 22, 1934
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denounces the government press for not leaving the monopoly of anti-Jewish incitement to the Nazis.

PAPER DENOUNCES REGIME

Every day that department of the public press which describes itself as being closely connected with “Christian German leadership of the state” indulges in the bitterest kind of slander of Jewish citizens, states Neue Welt.

Simultaneously government circles are demanding the institution of measures for the exclusion of Jews from academic life. Nazis are waging a persistent battle to capture leadership of the universities and colleges in spite of official resistance.

An instance of the struggle going on in the cloistered halls of learning is provided in the election of a new rector for the University of Vienna.

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