The “Voelkischer Beobachter”, exultingly stresses Saturday’s boycott as of great significance for the future. After describing in enthusiastic terms, the all-embracing boycott throughout Germany, it declares that “the campaign of enlightenment, the boycott, will bear fruit only during the coming days. Already the eyes of tens of thousands of Germans have been opened.”
The “Beobachter” describes the exclamations and remarks of the masses, who, it says, suddenly realized that all the shops from which they used to purchase and which bore non-Jewish names were indirectly owned by Jews. The paper declares that Saturday has shown the extent to which Jewish “filth” has consumed the mercantile and financial world. It mockingly describes scenes such as Jews at the offices of the boycott campaign beseeching the officials to stop the boycott. “New Jerusalem has assembled and resumed its wailing song !” the “Beobachter” exclaims. It adds, as though describing a great victory, “Even the entreaties of converts were invariably rejected, because a change of race cannot be made like a change of shirt.”
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