GERMANS INCENSED

Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 17

GERMANS INCENSED

AUSTRIAN AND WIFE FINED WREATH PLACED ON GRAVE OF HITLER'S PARENTS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 9. The;‘Daily Telegraph’s’ Berlin correspondent reports: “German anger was aroused by a report from Salzburg that a retired Austrian railwayman, Reinhold Brueckner, and his wife were fined £3 and the man deprived of his pension for placing a wreath on the grave of Herr_ Hitler’s parents at Leonding, near Lina. ‘ Germans will be struck speechless by this monstrous Austrian police measure.’ says the ‘ Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung;’ There is strong comment in other papers.’’ The Vienna correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says: “ Viennese official circles state it was not the actual laying of the wreath that the Austrian authorities regarded as reprehensible, hut the fact that they bore inscriptions the wording of which could only be regarded as a wilful political demonstration. That on Brueckner’s wreath read; ‘To the father of the savour of Germany, the man who will liberate Austria.’ The wife’s read::‘We thank you in death, we thank yon for your son.’ Brueckner was previously punished for Nazi activities.”