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has found work for the Jews? Adolf Hitler!” 32 Stores that were not marked by a swastika,
the inscription “Aryan Store” or other sign of Aryan ownership were highlighted by a red
painted Jude. Many cafés posted notices that “Jewish customers [were] not desired.” 33
Jewish businesses were to be boycotted by Aryan customers. 34
The ultimate goal was the
Aryanization of Jewish holdings at the lowest financial costs. The Reich Governor or
Statthalter, Dr. Seyss-Inquart, decreed that a “trustee manager” would be appointed to
take over the operation of a Jewish business concern if the owner disappeared, was
incarcerated, unable to conduct business or posed a threat to smuggle assets out of
Austria. 35 Jews were conscripted by Nazi brownshirts (S.A. or Sturmabteilung) for
forced labor in “cleaning brigades” so that Jews would “learn what real manual labor
means.” 36
Field Marshal Herman Wilhelm Goering warned that Jews no longer had a place
in Austrian society and must emigrate. He warned that Vienna would “become German
again. The Jew must know we do not care to live with him. He must go.” 37 He also
announced that the Government would begin the process of “legally and quietly”
32 New York Times, March 16, 1938, 8. The Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front or Patriotic Front)
was a right-wing fascist organization founded in 1933 by the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in an
attempt to create a one-party state linking Austrian nationalism with Catholicism.
33 The Times, March 17, 1938, 14.
34 “Letter by a German Official to Goering,” March 26, 1938, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Military
Trials Nuremberg, vol. 5 (Washington, 1946), 275-276 available from
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.py?imt/nca/nca-06//nca-06-3577-ps; Internet; accessed March 16, 2010.
35 The Times, March 31, 1938, 13.
36 Tampa Tribune, March 20, 1938, 4.
37 Washington Post, March 27, 1938, 1.
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