ANTI-NAZI TRACTS
DISTRIBUTION IN MUNICH STUDENT AUTHORS HANGED (Rec. 1 a.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 29. It is reliably learned from Stockholm that three students at Munich University were hanged after the Gestapo discovered a group engaged in writing and distributing anti-Nazi tracts among the students, says the New York Times. A number of prominent students were arrested, including Count Metternigh, who later was released after proving his innocence. The Gestapo closed the university for a day, and when it was reopened many seats were empty. The anti-Nazi faction is reported to have included young aristocrats, scions of leading industrial families, and fervent Catholics apparently activated by idealistic patriotic motives. The incident caused much uneasy comment in Munich, where morale was already depressed by the recent destructive R.A.F. raid. There is much grumbling among the people, who commonly greet each other with the Communist clenched fist salute instead of the Nazi greeting. Universities throughout the country are now being combed for slackers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25187, 30 March 1943, Page 3
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