Salzburg, July 1.
Details on the manner im which the Nazis assumed power in Austria on March 12 were given here today by Dr. Reiner, head of the Salzburg Nazi district, Dr. Reiner spoke from experience as he played an active role in the sensational developments at the time of the Anschluss. It was he who commanded 6,000 Austrian Storm Troopers and 800 Austrian Black-shirts to march on the Federal Chancellery to shut down that building, where the Federal President 1 Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, held out after ihe resignation of the Chancellor, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, refusing to nominate a Nazi to the vacant. chancellorship, "May God Come to My Aid"
It was at that critical time that President Miklas uttered his world-ringing words, "I declare to the world, I cannot nominate a Nazi Chancellor. May God come to my Shortly after, at 8
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