WOMAN ATTACKED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 636, 14 September 1933, Page 3

WOMAN ATTACKED

PLACARDED AND SHOWN TO CROWDS BY NAZIS. FRIENDLY TO JEWS. ! The women of Germany have to face graver problems than those that arise from the using of lipsticks in banks, or the wearing of beach pyjamas in churches. The Nuremberg correspondent of "The Times" announces that a party of storm-troopers compelled a stepmother, who had been sentenced for ill-treating her step-child, to parade streets, placarded "I am a liar and an unnatural mother." The local paper, owned by a Nazi leader, approvingly printed two photographs of the incident. British tourists, who has seen a girl of 19 maltreated in a restaurant because she was accompanied by a Jew, wrote fo the authorities and effectively protested against the placarding of another woman, who had been charged with infanticide. The tourists declared that such practise disgusted foreign visitors. Shaved Her Head. The restaurant incident consisted ■ of storm-troopers seizing the girl i, and cutting off her plaits and shav:ing her head. They then placarded her with "I offered r myself to a Jew," after which she was marched to successive cabarets and exhibited on platforms, while the troopers shouted the words of the placard, interspersed with obscene abuse. Another Jew and a non-Jewish {.woman, allegedly his mistress, were recently driven through the streets in an open motor car, placarded respectively, "I dishonoured a German woman" and "I surrendered myself to a Jew."