The Archive · 1939

8,000 Brown Shirts

Danzig, June 10.

At the demonstration of 8,000 Brown Shirt S, A. troopers from East Prussia and Danzig, held here yesterday evening and attended by bout 10,000 men and women of Danzig, the attachment of Danzig to the Reich and the confidence in the return of the mouth of the Vistula to the Great Reich was strong emphasized in speeches made by the chief of staff of the Brown Shirt A. detachments, Viktor Lutze, and the Regional Leader of Danzig, Al bert Forster, and in a telegram sent to the Fuehr The National Socialist Party authorities in Danzig declare that the 6,000 East Prussian Brown Shirt S. A. troopers came to Danzig merely for sporting contests. It was emphasized that there was no intention that these peaceful sporting activities should "have any kind of effect on the Polish neighbours.—Trans-Ocean.

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

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