Wires charged with 1,000 volts of electricity prevented escape, and every sentry was ordered fo use his Fire without warning if any prisoner moved in' his direction, Jewish prisoners "were told that every bullet cost 12 Pfennig, which was just what a Jew was worth, Prisoners rose at dawn, and coffee was distributed in a square where the gallows and flogging blocks stood. Those reporting sick were Inspected by the commandant, who treated those whom he decided to be ft with his riding whip, 'The sick in labour gangs were helped on with kicks and. whips, Latterly, no Jews had been accepted as sick: 'They could only be At or dead, 'The guards seemed to revel in tortures, During the journey Weimar, prisoners were often brut ally' maltreated, Reporting on November 11, 1998, fon the anti-Jewish demonstrations in Vienna on the occasion of Herr von Rath's murder in Paris, Mr, Donald St, Clair Gainer, British Consul-General in Vienna, said. that when a large number of Jewish shops and houses and Jewish prayer houses and synagogues were "fred, the police had obviously received instructions not "to. interfere.
Vienna "Pogrom" Described "Vienna," he continued, "presentcxiraordinary spectacle, with fires raging all over the city and Jews being hustled along the Streets, cursed at and assaulted by crowds of hooligans, whose pride it Is to belong to ohe of the greatggt_and_ most lvilized nations Describing the Vionma anti-Catholic demonstration, the Consul-Generat recorded that the Cardinal's palace was entered, windows smashed, ligious pictures destroyed, and valuable chalices and thie Episeonal rings, stones and robes, and even the personal wardrobe of' the Cardinal, were thrown into the courtyard and set on fire. A priest who endeavour ed to restrain the allackers waa mishandled, and an attempt was made to throw him out of a window. was badly out about the hands and arms by broken glass.
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