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e German Situation ~A Late Summary of International Events Relative to Nazi Activities tl TlTH American newspapers reaching the W point of restricting Jewish news from ’ ’ Germany to a box or to half a column, au thentic reports from Hitler’s Third Reich indi cate that the Nazis have far from discontinued their physical assaults upon Jews. The Jewish Morning Journal, after a thorough investigation bv jt» correspondents, reports that Hitlerites have not only brutally attacked but actually killed Jews in many communities distant from the average correspondent’s heat. The Morning Journal in vestigator admits that in Berlin and in similar large cities, the Nazis are attempting to preserve the outward semblance of order and that strict instructions have been given to prevent hoodlum rioting. But even in Breslau and in smaller com munities, Jews are rounded up, forced to serve as virtual members of “chain gangs’’ on public works, and their property con- hscated. A system of espionage, un equalled since the days of the Inquisi tion. has made it possible for envious and malicious anti-Semites to report Jews to local authorities for alleged violations of various statutes. The im mediate and eagerly-executed penalty is confiscation of Jewish property. The Morning Journal states that many -cores of Jews have been killed in vil lage adjacent to Breslau even after the “atrocity period,” which was vigorous ly denied by Nazi officials, was ended. These physical outrages are covered up by a vast and ruthless “cold po grom,' whose ramifications reach ever new fields every day. The most re markable of the orders this week was ivsued by the Postoffice and Telegraph Department which announced that it would refuse to deliver letters to per son:* with obviously Jewish names. It suggested that senders should turn Nathan" into “Nation” and “David” into Deutschland.” Gottsfried Feder, president of the German Technical So ciety, has been instructed by Chancel lor Hitler to remove all Jew's from the engineering and other technical profes sions. In Breslau, the Chief of Police has ordered the immediate cancellation of all gun licenses in the possession of Jews. He contends that Jews have used their firearms to attack Nazis and mem bers of the police. In Speyer, the Mayor ordered that the municipal bathing beaches could be used by Jews only at specified times, “In the interest of public peace and order.” As a final slap at Ein stein, for his attacks on anti-Semitism in Germany, the German Bureau of Standards, of w'hich Prof. Timtcin was a member for many years, has ex- Pelb-d him from the Board. An attempt by two Americans, now' in Germany, to dissuade Hitler and his associates from their anti-Semitic policies hav fallen on deaf ears. Victor Ridder, New York publisher, and Herman Metz, former Comptroller °* N ew- York City, addressed a luncheon of the A:’ rican Chamber of Commerce in Berlin and ^a.ned that Germany was isolating herself by ™* r anti-Jewish policy'. The German papers ig- n ° d the luncheon, how p ever. “If you persecute * r-ople because of their race,” Mr. Metz, a Ger- n '-American, said, “you will have not only every J' vv ' in the United States against you but also Tl E SOUTHERN ISRAELITE ft By Robert Stone every Christian—in short, every decent American. Hitler himself seems entirely unaffected by pro tests abroad or murmurings of discontent at home. In an address before Nazi Leaders at Munich, he reiterated his anti-Semitic principles, praising the discipline with which the Nazi program had been carried into effect. "When our defense campaign against the Jewish atrocities propaganda and boy cott agitation was ordered, it started promptly and when it was called off it ended just as promptly. The revolution will be complete only when the entire German world has a clean slate, internally and externally. International action is contemplated by the newlv-organized League to Combat anti-Semitism, which has its headquarters in London. The League is in communication with representive The»e two picture*, which would never have been teen by the out aide world had they nut been tmuinrled out *»( Germany, #h«»w the deg radation to which the Jew* of Chemniti. Sa*- ony, including lawyer*, doctor* and i bu»inet* men. were mbjected by the Naai* who forced them to itreet cleaning tatk* and to while- wa»h a wall in the bux ine** quarter of the town. When one re fused, he wa* publicly paraded through the city »n a acavenger’a cart. (Photoa: Planet New*, reproduced through the courte*y of 7he London Jewish Chronicle) groups in America and in other countries for the purpose of drawing up a manifesto to be addressed to Chancellor Hitler, demanding an immediate cessation of anti-Semitic activity and a cancella tion of all anti-Jewish statutes. The alternative will be a drastic and uncompromising interna tional boycott by Jews on Germany and German products. That Polish Jewry is favorable to such a policy was evident at a huge conference in War saw', attended by leading Jews from all parts of Poland, where a resolution w'as drawn up calling upon Polish Jewry to avoid dealing with Ger many in any respect. In the United States, in the meantime, a report has been given to the press from Nazi sources that Hitlerite groups in this country have been dis solved by orders from Germany. Christoph Klausfelder, secretary of the Cincinnati chapter, announced that “now that Adolf Hitler is in power, w'e do not need an organization here.” While German Jews in America continue, in the main, to urge silence with regard to anti- Semitic activities in Germany, Professor James Franck, Nobel Prize winner in physics, and one of the outstanding scientists of the age, resigned as professor of experimental physics at the Uni versity of Goettingen as a protest against the mistreatment of the Jews by the Reich, w'ho holds the Iron Cross for gallant services at the front where he served as a volunteer, refused to take advantage of the provision of the new law w'hich would have permitted him to keep his post because of his war services. “We Germans of Jewish extraction arc being treated as foreigners and enemies of the Father- land. 'The demand is made of us that our chil dren shall grow up in the consciousness of never being recognized as Germans. Whoever was in the war is to receive permission to serve the state further. I decline to make use of this favor though I understand the view'- point of those who consider it their duty to remain at their posts.” Franck, who served in the war from December, 1914 to February 1918, won many decorations for valor and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925 for his research work on tfoe composi tion of the atom and the molecule. It was because of Prof. Franck that the Rockefeller Foundation of America made a very substantial gift to Goet tingen University. The unwillingness of distinguished German Jewish intellectual leaders to admit that exclusion of and the dis crimination against Jews can become a “normal process” has a darker side, however. 'This was evidenced during the past week in the official bulletin of the Central Union of German Jews which appealed against suicide as a way out of the overwhelming diffi culties. The number of suicides among Jews who have been dismissed from (iovernment service or who have been deprived of private practice is increas ing alarmingly. “We must live and battle for our rights,” the Central Union declares. 'The first “self-help” organization of Jewish physicians has been formed in Germany. A circular letter has been sent abroad appealing to their Jewush colleagues for aid by accelerating the granting of immigra tion visas. “Many of the most distinguished names in German medicine are willing to work as third rate assistants in hospitals or to take up private practice if they can only go abroad,” the letter says, adding that “literal starvation faces the majority of us.” In response to the letter, London Jewish physicians are urging the British Government to permit the entry of at least 100 Jewish doctors from Germany for the time being. In the meantime, the w'orld-wide boycott by Jews of German products is acquiring new' inten sity. The Jewish boycott organization in London has issued chain letters to all parts of the world, asking the recipients to forward the contents of the letter to ten others. This organization has also issued a warning that if there is no let-up in the Nazi policies in Germany, it will station pickets in front of every store in England that is known to sell German products and urge customers away from the shops. [11]