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The German Situation
A Review of the News in Germany, America and Other Lands
Based on All the Latest Pertinent Cable Dispatches
By Robert Stone
A Jewish situation unprecedented in
modern history confronts the Jews of the
world for solution. In Germany, the
Jewish population, terror-stricken, ap
peals to the Jews of the outside world
to cease their protests against Hitlerism.
In America, Jewish leaders are in con
fusion as to the proper steps to take,
embarrassed by the supplications from
Jews to halt, and yet genuinely concerned
to follow a course of action that will
blockade Adolf Hitler in the execution
of his ruthless anti-Semitic program.
t aking the stand that “atrocity stories”
disseminated by Jews and Jewish inter-
tests have injured Germany's good name,
the National Socialists are launching on
a campaign of “retaliation,” forgetting
apparently that for years the slogan to
their followers has been “Judah perish!"
Heedless of Germany's prestige among
the council of nations, ignoring the patent
fact that a world-wide boycott by Jews
and other faiths can cripple German com
merce and industry for years to come,
the Nazis, displaying their narrow, big
oted statesmanship, want Jews in Ger
many to suffer. Jews in Germany can
not suffer without bringing into that
tragic situation their neighbors and busi
ness associates of the Christian faith.
The most important anti-Semitic docu
ment issued by the Nazis since the ac
cession to office of Hitler is an eleven-
point manifesto emanating from the
Brown House at Munich, which calls up
on National Socialists throughout the
Reich to boycott Jewish stores as a “meas
ure of defense against" Jewish protests
against Hitlerism abroad. Although os
tensibly an isolated Nazi action, the high
est Nazi officials have made it clear that
the boycott is "tolerated but not supported
by the government.” Chancellor Adolf
Hitler, in a statement issued after a Cabi
net meeting, gave the program his full
support, however.
But while Hitler guaranteed that perse
cution of and discrimination against Jews
will be conducted on “an organized and
orderly basis,” his lieutenants throughout
Germany took the execution of the pro
gram into their own hands. While va
rious Nazi speakers flooded the air with
radio denunciations of Jews and their
protests abroad, Jewish judges were
forcibly removed from the bench, Jewish
lawyers were disbarred, Jewish doctors
were forced to flee the country, Jewish
film and stage actors were compelled to
resign, Jewish musicians were forbidden
to take part in musical productions. The
Nazis have invented a new phrase “pro
tective custody” which enables them to
imprison Jews on the pretext that it is
to safeguard their lives from fanatic
mobs. Typical of the action of munici
pal officials was that of the Mayor of
Frankfurt am Main, center of some of the
oldest Jewish families in Germany, who
ordered the removal of Jews from
municipal musical posts. The chief of
police of Recklinghausen forbade his
officers to patronize Jews. In Frank
furt, Prof. Hugo Sinzheimer, professor
of law at the University, was taken into
“protective custody,” together with a
number of Jewish lawyers and judges.
Dr. Sinzheimer was formerly a member
of the Reichstag.
In Gottingen and other towns, the
Nazis did not content themselves with
picketing stores but smashed windows.
This resulted in the issuance of an ap
peal by German insurance companies,
pointing out that not the Jewish store
keepers but the insurance firms were suf
fering, inasmuch as they had to pay large
damages to the insured establishments.
“German national wealth is being delib
erately destroyed” was the gist of the
insurance companies' earnest plea to their
German compatriots.
In the meantime, leading Jews of Ger
many cabled and telephoned to New York
and other world capitals begging respon
sible Jewish leaders to reassure Hitler
that they were discontinuing their pro
tests, that they did not believe the “atroci
t>“ stories, etc. Oscar VVasserman, Co-
Chairman of the Council of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, and director of the
giant Deutsche Bank in Berlin, commu
nicated with Dr. Cyrus Adler, Presi
dent of the American Jewish Committee,
to halt the protest. To which Dr. Adler
replied that his organization had never
approved of protests and that no respon
sible Jewish organization in America was
giving approval to the rumored boycott
against German goods in America. Other
sources of public opinion were mobilized
by German Jewish leaders. Zionist
groups, kehillahs, banks, Reichstag mem
bers, and leading Jews in other countries
bombarded America, for the American
protest is believed to have irritated Ger
many more than that of any other land,
probably because of its worldwide re
percussions. German firms were doing
the same. Newspaper publishers, heads
of press associations, banking establish
ments, Cabinet ministers, other govern
ment officers, heads of shipping lines and
other industrial magnates were keeping
the trans-Atlantic cables hot with denials
of anti-Semitic outrages, assurances of
perfect tranquility in the country and
pleas to halt anti-Hitler action in
America.
Alarmed by the disastrous consequences
that would result from a boycott, the
Central Verein der deutschen Juden pub
lished an appeal to President von Hinden-
burg to intervene on behalf of the Jews
of Germany. Couched in the sychophan-
tic tones of documents that used to be
submitted to the Czar in the darkest days
of Russia, the plea was, substantially, a
condemnation of “certain elements” of
German Jewry, presumably referring to
“Ostjuden.” “On account of the mistakes
of a few for whom we accept no respon
sibility,” the message said, “we German
Jews who feel ourselves bound with
every fiber of our heart to the German
homeland are doomed to economic de
struction.” The fact that "12,000 Jews
gave their lives for the Fatherland” is
reiterated.
That Hitler is making a rapprochement
with the Catholic Centre party, as a re
sult of his intention to isolate the Jews, is
evident from a statement made by Car
dinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne,
who announced the ban placed by the
Catholic Church on the Nazi movement
had been lifted. In the meantime, Prof.
Einstein as a gesture of his revulsion
against the conduct of Germany, an
nounced that he was taking steps to
cancel his German citizenship, which
came to him in 1914, when he became a
member of the staff of the Prussian
Academy of Science. He announced hi*
intention of repudiating Germany in a
letter to the German Consul at Brussels.
He will probably resume his Swiss citi
zenship. (Please turn to Page 12)
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