DR. SCHUSCHNIGG
ASSASSINATION REPORT
(Received June 7, 9.40 a.m.)
PARIS, June 6.
' A message from Budapest is published in the newspaper "L'Ordre" to the effect that Dr. Schuschnigg, former Austrian Chancellor, was secretlyassassinated in Vienna by the Gestapo (Nazi Secret Police), and that the body was buried at night.
The message adds that when Dr. Schuschnigg's wife asked to see him the was told that he no longer needed her.
Dr. Kurt yon Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of Austria, was placed under "protective arrest" after the annexation of that country and held at the Hotel Metropole in Vienna. On June 30 of last year, Herr Buerckel, German High Commissioner for Austria, announced that Dr. yon Schuschnigg would be brought to trial on charges of high treason. In October it was stated that the choice of the Court would shortly be made and the case heard without any avoidable delay. Some of the charges were then revealed in a semi-official statement, it being alleged that Schuschnigg did not hesitate to commit serious breaches of the law and the Constitution "to bring economic, moral, and physical ruin to their personal enemies."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 11
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