DISTRESS & SHAME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 6

DISTRESS & SHAME

AFTERMATH OF GERMAN POGROM MANY JEWS WITHOUT MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD. 1 OUTRAGES IN THE PROVINCES BY UNIFORMED MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says Foreign diplomats are compiling reports of outrages on their nationals. In addition to numbers of Dutch, Polish and Rumanian subjects assaulted and ruined, four Americanowned stores in Berlin were wrecked. Distressed Jews are daily storming the foreign consulates in Berlin. Some 140,000 applications from Jews have been registered for entry to the United States, but the quota permits the entry of only 27,000 annually.

It is obvious that less care was taken in the provinces to conceal official condonation of the pogrom than in Berlin. Fully uniformed Black Guards demolished Jewish flats, and the beautiful chapel in the Hanover Jewish cemetery was burned down.

Aryan Germans, not opposed to the Nazi regime, have been declaring: “This is the first time in my life I am ashamed to be a German.” The savage laws enacted daily have intensified the revulsion among decent Germans. Reports of suicides and deaths of Jews continue. Provincial Jews find that their means of livelihood have utterly disappeared.