Members of a Vienna Nazi Storm Troop were sentenced today to a fortnight’s imprisonment at hard labor for threatening Jewish merchants living in the vicinity of the Nazi Brown House.
Witnesses testified that the Jewish merchants were exposed to danger to their lives.
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