The dangers that face German Jewry today as a result of the inroads which the anti-Semitic National Socialist party is making on German life were described at yesterday’s conference of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish faith by President Brodnitz and Alfred Wiener.
The National Socialists led by Adolph Hitler are so well organized that they are getting control of entire communities, the Association’s leader pointed out.
“They are busy organizing ‘cells’ in factories and among the peasants on the farms and have even injected their anti-Semitic propaganda among the children in the public school, among the members of the German Reichswehr and the police force.”
Many small Jewish communities, the association’s leaders declare, have been boycotted, terrorized and economically ruined as a result of this wide-spread and malicious anti-Semitic propaganda.
“Jewish families in a number of these small German towns fear to be seen on the streets after dark. The danger doesn’t stop here, however, for the influence of the Hitlerites is spreading to the larger cities.”
Because the parties of the “Right” in Germany are not fully aware of the dangers of the Hitlerite propaganda, and even support the National Socialists against the “Left” party, the Central Association, its leaders say, is the only organization in Germany which is trying to stem the flood of anti-Semitism by carrying on a counter-propaganda of enlightenment among Christians through speeches, pamphlets and brochures and by doing what it can to mitigate the trials of the terrorized Jewish families.
That the fears of the leaders of the Central Association are not unfounded is indicated from recent dispatches reporting that the Hitlerites are making concerted efforts to have anti-Schechita legislation adopted in various parts of Germany, and even going so far as to attempt the passage of a bill that would make it a crime for Germans to inter-marry with Jews. Repeated desecrations of Jewish cemeteries, interruptions of synagogue services and the refusal of large employers of labor to hire Jewish workers are other manifestations of the growing anti-Semitism in Germany about which the Central Association is concerned.
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