Imminent danger
Dark premonitions fill the pages of the diary of a Jew from Linz
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“Meanwhile the Nazi demonstrations are taking on ever-expanding dimensions, making the immense threat to Austria appear closer and closer.”
Linz
The Austrian Adolph Markus had started a diary on January 12, the day Hitler forced the “Berchtesgaden Treaty” on the Austrian chancellor, Schuschnigg. The treaty stipulated the release of National-Socialist prisoners, gave free rein to Nazi political organizing, and granted a greater measure of participation in government activities to their political representatives. Markus personally witnessed the thuggish behaviour of the released prisoners and their reception by sympathizers in the streets of Linz. In his diary entry on February 20, he records the events of the preceding day and reveals his worries for his country.
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SOURCE
Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Diary, February 1938–December 1939, Adolph Markus, ME1090
Source available in English
