PITIABLE CONDITION
PRISONER OF NAZIS ! DR. SCHL’SCHNIGG’S FATE VICTIM OF MELANCHOLIA VIENNA, 7th April. White-haired, stooping, and broken in health, Dr. Schuschnigg, the former Chancellor of Austria, is now suffering his most severe blow since he became a prisoner a year ago in a garret in the Hotel Metropole. This is Vienna’s secret police headquarters, not far from where he once presided as Chancellor. A fortnight ago it was considered probable that Dr. Schuschnigg would be transferred to a sanatorium or a private villa in North Germany, but that one ray of hope has now been shattered by the German Government’s decision to postpone his transference indefinitely. The Gestapo (German secret police) has been instructed that the conditions attaching to his confinement cannot now bo relaxed in the slightest, because of the disturbed political situation. His wife is allowed to see him, under observation, only for 10 minutes each week, but he has become too listless to take pleasure in any kind of conversation, and is suffering from intense melancholia.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 April 1939, Page 9
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170PITIABLE CONDITION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 April 1939, Page 9
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