New Nazi Purge Takes 230 Lives Says Saar Press, Evening Star (Article, 1934)
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NEW NAZI PURGE TAKES 230 LIVES, SAYS SAAR PRESS
Many Reported Arrested in Drive Against Critics of Hitler Regime.
SAAR FRONTIER CLOSED WITH PREBISCITE NEAR
Only Those Entering Basin on Official Business to Pass League's Guard
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Territory, December 27--A new blood purge paralleling in severity that of last June was reported tonight in the newspaper Volksstimme.
Volksstimme says that "100 have been murdered and 1,000 arrested in another June 30 directed against the S. S. (Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth."
The newspaper, edited by the anti-Nazi leader, Braun, quotes another publication, Weitbuhne, as saying 230 were slain and 3,000 to 4,000 arrested in Berlin alone.
300 Arrested in Berlin
The Nazi paper Abenblatt printed an obviously official story from Berlin saying 300 were arrested for a sexual abnormality "in a new cleaning action."
The paper charged the anti-Nazi press with "abominable attempts to stir up trouble."
(Reports from Berlin last night said a new blood purge was considered likely with Monarchists as its particular prey. The reports said the arrest of a group of sexually abnormal persons who were accused of plotting Hitler's overthrow was apparently being seized upon as the excuse for the latest move.)
