was panic stricken, they were caught like rats in a trap, for they
had no warning of the impending disaster. Immediately they
threw together what few things they could, and then began an
exodus such as perhaps took place on the night when they were
delivered out of Egypt. The roadways out of Vienna were choked
with Jewish men, women, and children, packs on backs, hurrying
to escape from an Austria gone mad with Nazi hate for the Jew.
Suddenly all frontiers were closed, and these poor Jews only
found that they must return to whatever might await them. The
trains were crowded with the better-class Jews, who had gathered
together what possessions they could, and were rushing likewise
to escape. At every frontier the trains were stopped, every Jew
was dragged out, searched down to the skin, and stripped of every
possession he had. The Nazis boasted that they had thus collected
over twenty million marks! They then loosed these hapless Jews
and told them they might go where they would!
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