TERRIBLE ANTI-JEWISH OUTRAGES IN GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1938, Page 7

TERRIBLE ANTI-JEWISH OUTRAGES IN GERMANY

Appalling Destruction Throughout Country EVEN APPARENTLY DECENT PEOPLE OBSESSED By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, November 11, The attacks against Jews throughout Germany, following the ideath of Dr von Rath, Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris who was shot by a Polish youth, can only be described as a pogrom of ferocity unparalleled in recent years. An orgy of destruction of Jewish property throughout the country continued night and day on an unprecedented scale. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press telephoned a graphic story, describing the appalling destruction, pillage, and arson. He declares that every window in the Friedrichstrasse was broken, gangs of half-drunken men systematically smashing Jewish shops. ' A dozen groups, 50 strong, raided the fashionable shopping centres, committing the worst destruction. The correspondent says that within an hour and a half he saw at least 200 shops smashed and the interiors demolished. Even apparently decent people seemed to be obsessed with racial hatred. Fashionably-dressed women clapped their hands as shops in the main streets were wrecked, and middle-class mothers held up their children to see the fun.