Talk:Arpad Weixlgärtner

A fact from Arpad Weixlgärtner appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, Arpad Weixlgärtner refused to hand over the keys to the Imperial Treasury to the SS?

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1. What happened to his wife? Did she survive the war?

2. Presumably the SS forced their way into the treasury anyway, without the keys?

PhilUK (talk) 18:28, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]