TREATMENT OF NEWS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 149, 22 February 1939, Page 1

TREATMENT OF NEWS

LIFE IN GERMANY UNBELIEVABLY BAD "The life of a Jew or part Jew in Germany to-day is unbelievably dreadful,'’ said Mass Mary Hursthou.se, who returned to Wellington last week after To months abroad, a large part of which was spent in Germany. As tho guest of several leading families, including Jewish households. Miss Hurst-house obtained lirst-hand information of conditions in Germany to-day. Miss Hursthouse said that Jews or part Jews were barred from restaur- ’ ants and theatres, and often during the performance at a cinema theatre there was a police raid and all the patrons had to produce l identification cards. Tin; Jews present were then imprisoned for breaking a law. To a Jewish family a sharp knock on tho door meant only one thing—the secretpolice had called to arrest a member of the family.

“There j.s no doubt,” said Miss Hurst-house, "that. Hitler has been successful in regulating Germany, and every effort is made to show visitors, the best- side'of his social scheme. In hotels, restaurants and even .private homes special concessions are made to visitors because Germany wants tourists to circulate currency.” Miss Hursthouse stayed in Pomerania, near tile Baltic Sea, where she was the guest of an old German lamily connected with the Evangelical or Confessional Church, which is directly opposed to Na/.iism and all for which it stands. She said that although up tot the present pastors of the Confessional Church were not imprisoned, every possible hindrance wps placed in their way. During 1!),'!8, 70U pastors were placed in prison. When asked how the general puhhe accepted Na/.iism, she explained: that

without exception the old cultured families, who, for generations had been used to living their own lives and exercising freedom of thought, were