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Thursday, May 01, 2008

May, 1938: More Jewish persecution in Austria

Sometimes, the enormity of the Holocaust is too overwhelming, and one needs to see how bad things were beforehand to even begin to relate to the horror of the death camps.

This news clipping from 70 years ago gives a small idea the situation of the Jews in Austria before the gas chambers were built. And it shows how a situation could occur that would culminate in genocide only a few years later.