SWASTIKA FOOTPRINTS
PRAGUE, March 1. Political ingenuity led to the arrest of Johann Bauernschein, aged 22, an Austrian Nazi, while on a visit to Schoenau, Czechoslovakia. Travellers waiting for a train were Surprised to see the forbidden swastika stamped everywhere on the soft soil of the 'wayside station “platform.” Observation revealed that wherever Bauernschein walked swastikas appeared like footprints.
Bauernschein was arrested and told to hold up his boots for inspection. It was then discovered that he had driven nails into the soles in the form of the swastika. He is now in Znaim Prison, I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 16
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