thorough as possible, embracing even newspapers that might be considered to manifest insufficient enthusiasm in pushing the boycott. Such newspapers are to be denied advertisements and advertisers are to be encouraged to boycott them. The boycott is to be applied not only to Jews but is to be extended also to non-Jews caught in the act of patronizing Jewish stores lawyers, or doctors.
A curious feature of the campaign is that it is to go hand in hand with an attempt to influence opinion abroad and to convince the foreign public that the world-wide protest movement has been built up on grossly exaggerated reports. Germans having connections abroad are requested to assist in this effort by writing to their friends in foreign countries describing the disseminated reports as a campaign of defamation against the German people.
The Nazi communique concludes with a serious warning against violence, declaring that not the hair of a Jew must be touched. It also insists that foreign subjects, irrespective of race or religion, are not to be subjected to the boycott.
According to the communique, the campaign is to open officially on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Its official postponement is described as “pending developments in the outside world”.
Despite the fact that the boycott is not to be officially launched until Saturday morning, it has actually already commenced in a number of places in which Jewish shops have been compelled to close down and pay their employees two months’ salary in advance. The affected cities include Essen, Hamburg, Schwerwarte, Bochum, Bieleafeld, Witten, Duisburg, Gleiwitz, Earmstadt, Mannheim, Goettingim, Recklinghausen, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, and Glogau.
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