All efforts behind the scenes to avert the official opening of the boycott have failed. The Nazi Party has issued an official statement this afternoon declaring that in no circumstances will the boycott be postponed. It goes on to say that even if the boycott is officially withdrawn at the last minute, it has assumed such dimensions that it is unlikely that the Nazi Troopers would obey.
As though intent on exerting every possible means to hasten the economic ruin of German Jewry, the Nazi authorities are hour by hour laying new burdens on the hapless Jewish population. Thus, all Jewish employees working for non-Jews, have been ordered to be dismissed without any compensation as soon as the boycott starts. On the other hand, Christian employees, working for Jews, are ordered to leave Jewish establishments, but to demand two months’ salary in advance.
The Prussian Diet has petitioned the Minister of Education for the immediate dismissal of all Jewish teachers and for the introduction of a rule allowing no more thon 1% of Jewish pupils in the Prussian schools. It is significant, also, that even the so-called numerus clausus allowing of a certain percentage of Jews in schools and professions as originally proposed by Hitler is in many places giving place to a numerus nullus, or a complete exclusion. Thus, in Frankfurt, all Jewish lawyers have been barred from practice without a single exception.
Nazi pickets in many cities are vieing with each other in the invention of methods of frightening customers away from Jewish shops. In some places the Nazis have threatened to photograph such customers and display them in the local cinemas. In others, as in Annaburg, the faces of customers coming out of Jewish shops were stamped with a slogan reading: “We are traitors; we bought from Jews”.
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