The Archive · 1938

Dollfuss Assassination "National Pride Day"

Hanged Nazis as "Fighters For Holy Ideal"

Klagenfurt, July 25.

Speaking at a demonstration in connection with the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Englebert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, which was celebrated ye: terday as a day of "national pride, Herr Rudolf Hess, Herr Hitler's deputy, described the thirteen. Nazis hanged four years ago as "fighters who lost their lives for the holy ideal of a greater Germany."

Herr Hess emphasized that Herr Hitler did not want war, but said that he would never capitulate in his fight for a greater Germany.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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