ANTI-SEMITISM

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 10

ANTI-SEMITISM

RESTRICTIONS AND BANS REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY HARDSHIPS AND INJUSTICE A l (Times Air Mall.) LONDON, Dec. 9. r Still further anti-Jewish measures, destined to drive Jews completely from i public life in Germany and force them , to fly empty-handed from the country, i were discussed between Dr. Goebbels 1 and his provincial propaganda leaders to-day, says the Berlin correspondent of the News Chronicle. In addition to discussing methods for applying more effectively decrees already In force, new measures debated Included: Jews to be forbidden to live in certain areas—frontier districts and 1 tourist centres, for example—and in •ertain streets in the best residential i quarters. Jews not to be allowed out after *a fixed curfew hour; All Jews with, identity cards, that is | men, women and children over the ; age of three months, to be made ' to wear a distinctive costume. iVoposals for dress put forward range from fantastic ideas like yellow cloaks, pointed yellow caps with > embroidered stars of David, blobs of yeEow cloth fixed on breasts and shoulders down to more simple ideas, Mke yellow armbands or badges. Shops Close Again The excuse put forward is that this la necessary in order that Aryans may be protected from annoyance, in case of spontaneous publio attack on the Jews. The various ideas are to be put before Herr Hitler for his decision. To-day all Jewish rhops which have had their windows repaired and had reopened were closed again, by order of the police. The owners interpreted Marshal Goering's order that they must close down by January i, 193 D, to mean <bai they eould remain open until that '4ate to sell off stock. Complaints that they were selling at low prices, to the detriment of Aryan shopkeepers, were the excuse for closing them down to-day. They wfH thus be forced to hand over their stock for next to nothing—the final turn of the thumb-screw. Insatiable Nazi appetite for victims is inntlable. Plans are now being made to brand as Jews all those of mixed race who have up till now been given at least theoretical equality with Aryans. This equality was never real; the jnen had to serve in the army, but could never get promotion: and ‘both men and women had difficulty in getting work, as “pure Aryan blood" was always demanded. Now it is to be abolished altogether. Labour books, held by all in work, are to be stamped with the tell-tale word "mongrel," which will make it almost impossible for the holder thus stigmatised to obtain employment. A special section of the Nazi 'Party’s Racial Policy Office has been founded, to sift out the so-called "mongrels" who are now also to be driven from economic life. Special hardship and injustice will be caused if plans mature to brand even pure, Aryan men and women, married to Jewish partners, as though they were themselves full-blooded Jews, and subject them to all the horrors to which the Jews have been submitted. ________