JEWS IN GERMANY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1933, Page 5

JEWS IN GERMANY

ONE-DAY BOYCOTT

THREAT MADE BY HERR NEURATH

(United , Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.)

BERLIN, April 1

A sudden decision to limit the 'boycott to on e day i B regarded in responsible quarters as recognition that economic dislocation would inevitably follow, the extension of such measures. jA 'Nazi boycott official admitted that telegrams from America led to the (exclusion of Jewislh banks f'om to-day’s activities. It i.s not unlikely that financial reasons wer e urged by influential quarters, and caused a change i n the original plan; -under which the boycott would be continued indefinitely. Even Nazi members of the Cabinet insisted on tlie desirability of avoiding economic complication. It is suspected, in some quarters, that the whol 8 campaign is a. sop to the •Nazi extremists, wh 0 ’have for years been incited to anti-Semitism.

It remains to be seen whether, once the boycott has started, the leaders will b& qbl© to check it. Ther e is reason to believe that a limitation of the anti-Jewish boycott is due to vo i tl Neurath’ig threat t<j resign if it is carried through. Hitler ’thereupon compromised to one day, and NSurath consented to stay id the Cabinet. ■Herr Stretcher, leader of ahti.Semrtism, says that th e messages coming from abroad (suggest that it win be unnecessary to resume the Jewish hoy= cott.

A retaliatory boycott of Cc-rman goods ; in France and abroad will coincide with the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany, large orders having already (been cancelled. On Saturday night, .for the benefit of foreigners, placards were posted in ungrammatical English saying; “Germans, defend yourself aganist the Jewish atrocity propaganda!” When the official boycott began, many Jewish shops ’ were unopened, ■and were heavily' picketed. Nazis placarded the ‘windows warning, any customers that' they traded at the risk of their lives'.

Nazis at Nuremberg arrested customers of the Jews as enemies of the State.

WIDESPREAD FLIGHT OF JEWS

IMPOSSIBLE TO EARN LIVING

BERLIN, April 1

It is now becoming! almost impossible fo r Jewish professional men to earn a living in Germany. The Jewish barristers in Berlin are in future to he limited to thirty. Hithert o they have numbered * two thousand out of a total of 3600 'barristers in the city.

Hundreds of Jews are fleeing from the country, especially doctors, lawyers, scientists, .actors and artigts. Nazis entered a bank where Dr Einstein 'has kept a deposit of fifteen hundred sterling, which they confiscated, , The Nazis have released the Jewish (judges and lawyers, who -have been “protectively arrested” in Dusseldorf. Th e leading Jews have been deprived of passports to prevent their departure.

In view of the Berlin boycott some Jews, have posted notices such as: '1 served 'four years in the front line: This is my regard!” “We Jews help to pay for the unemployed!” There were dense crowds of people in 'Cologne city and in other Rhineland towns, which suggested that the populace wer e out holidaying t 0 watch the boycott working. The boycott was generally inten s e. No Jew was overlooked. Few people risked the threat .of being filmed and exhibited at the cinemas if they entered a Jewish shop. .Nevertheless, the Gentile trade] s profited little. Housewives will, probably, flock to Jewish firm s again on (Monday in accordance with their custom,

The Polish Consul’s intervention prevented any boycott of the Polish Jews at Breslau. Wagner’s statue at : Munich wag desecrated because his -second wife was a Jewess! The wreathe wer e burned, the .statue, being blackened by the Ifiames,

UNREST FELT IN VIENNA

VIENNA,

March <3l

The Socialist burgomaster. Herr Seitz, has retaliated for 'the disbandment of fire Socialist 'Defensive Alliance, otherwise th© Schutz-b°nd, by j suing a decree for the . disbandment of the Reimwehr, the Austrian Fascists who are distinct from .the -Nazis.

The decision is duo to the Reimwehr’s threat, forcibly t 0 alter the Constitution. The Government is not likely t« ratify the decree.

AUTHENTICATED OASES

OF GERMAN VIOLENCE

(Received April 3 at 9.51 a.m.) LONDON, April 2.

The Sunday “Times’ » correspond mt at Berlin says the boycott is a complete fiasco. .Regular customers bought heavily. The pickets were chiefly toys between 18 and 20, and were continuously heckled, the crowds generally sympathising with th 9 Jews. Many savage attacks on Jew?. 'Socialists and Communists are reported. Newmann, a Jewish merchant, at K'jcnigsberg, was dragged from his Jiuuse and beaten. He died as the, xe-

suit of a fractured skull and blood poisoning, due to pepper being sprinkled on bis wounds.

Kindermami, a resident of Berlin, disappeared for several days. His father later / received a message that he could fetch the hotly from the .Storm Troops headquarters. Krell, a Jew, flung himself from a fourth story window lo avoid further torture.

A Jewish merchant belonging to Dol. gesheim, was hanged after torture.

A Jewish' cattle dealer was taken for a ride in a car and shot. All these cases have been authenticated. They were du© to /private vengeance by Nazis.

LYNCH LAW AT KIEL

JEW KILLS STORM TROOPER

(Received April 3 at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, April 2

The boycott produced lynch law at Kiel where Herr Scliomm, a Jewish solicteor, arrived to attend his sister’s wedding. He was unable to enter his father’s shop owing to Nazi pickets, wherewith in a scuffle, Scliomm drew a revolver, which he- .accidentally discharged, wounding a .storm trooper, Ashalter.

Storm troups smashed the shop windows and arrested the family. A rumour spread that Ashalter was dead, and a mob destroyed the -shop and stormed the gaol where Scliomm was detained, and riddled him with bullets. Ashalter died later.

The boycott is generally a lost force, owing to the Jewish Sabbath, many shopis being closed, but two thousand onrloyeea were rendered idle at Werthein’s big store until they were sent home, Storm Troops surrounding them. Berlin Bourse prevented Jews from entering. Pickets were generally prominent in the streets. The offices of doctors, lawyers and small shops were unmolested.

RUSSO-GERMAN EEL ATI OX S

(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 1

Prussian po'ice raided the headquarters of the Russo-German Petroleum company and arrested thirteen employees. The Russian Embassy declares this is the climax of raids on the Company’s branches at Cologne, Leipsig, Munich and elsewhere and may strain Russo-German relations.

NEWBURY CUP RESULT. LONDON, April 1. The Newbury Cup resulted; Limelight- 1, Solenoid 2, Fona s 3. Fonrtron rfarted. Won by a head ; third one and a Kill lengths away. Their Ma;jr s tic ( s visited Newbury and s xw the King’s four-year.old Limelight win th© Spring Cup. This is IDs Majesty’s fi’-Lt victory for a considerable I iime.