Quick action by the police was necessary to save Friedrich Rauch, 35-year-old German Hitler sympathizer, who broke up Sabbath observance services in Strasbourg by shouting “Heil Hitlerl” Rauch was badly mauled by the enraged worshippers before ### broke through the crowd and took him into custody.
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