Foreign Press Reports on Abuses Partly Confirmed Berlin, July Diplomatic quarters here commented considerably on the drastic measures announced yesterday by Herr Joseph Buerckel Nazi Commissioner in Austria, providing for the dismiss sal of all state "commissioners of private concerns" and the internment of twelve of them in the Dachau concentration camp.
This partly confirms the foreign press reports of incidents in Austria which some German papers had bitterly attacked, comparing the foreign papers with "gangsters who must be assimilated to assassins and panders."
Non-German quarters here attach considerable importance to Herr Buerckel's admission that abuses had been committed during the first period of the Anschluss "by some members of the Nazi Party elated by their successes," while the fact that over 3,000 Viennese Jews sought shelter in Berlin apparently showed their fears in Vienna—Hava:
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