ANTI-CLIMAX

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9

ANTI-CLIMAX

INCIDENT OVER GRAVE OF HITLER’S PARENTS GERMAN NEWSPAPERS APOLOGETIC Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, April 10. (Received April 12, at 8 a.m.) The incident over the grave of Heir Hitler’s ended in anti-climax. German newspapers apologetically publish an admission that there has been a misunderstanding. It is explained that Herr Brueckner, who has been pardoned, was punished because, without being authorised, he attached a ribbon to the wreath stating that it came from the whole local community. It is stated that the Austrian Government does not intend to restrict visits to the grave.

fTho * Daily Telegraph’s ’ Berlin correspondent reported: “ 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 Linz. ‘ Germans will be struck speechless by this monstrous Austrian police measure,’ says the ” Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.” There is strong comment in other papers.” 3 , t

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