In the following letters from witnesses of the Nazi terror in Germany which have been received in New York and which have been made exclusively available to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, there is contained as vivid and as human a packet of testimony as has yet come out ### Germany. Names of persons and ### places have had to be deleted to ###tect the senders of these letters ###m the danger of reprisal. We ### produce these letters for what they ### worth.
(This was received by a New York Jew from his mother)
Fritzlar, April 1st.
I should like to beg of you not to ###orry about us here because every###ing here is calm and peaceful, because the Nazis here, especially their ###leaders, are exceedingly decent and ### really do not do any harm to any ### Jew. I would like you to inform ### your club about it. . . I would ask ### you to send me an authorized letter ### from some authorities in which you ### confirm that I have informed you ### about our local conditions here. . . .
Berlin, March 24th.
###ear Aunt:
Today I want to report to you ###efly what is happening in Berlin. ### the newspapers not everything ### happens here is reported, but I ### to give you an exact picture.
The excesses against the Jews are coming along. They have removed Jewish physicians from the hospitals. In a word, everything in Berlin is topsy-turvy.
Do you by any chance know a family here in Berlin by the name of K—? They arrested one of their sons some days ago and dragged him, nobody knows where. After three days the father went to the Nazi barracks and inquired after his son. He was told that nobody knew him. When he returned the next day and raised a fuss he was thrown out. However, when he returned the third day, he found his son lying before the door, shot dead. The Nazis told him that he had fallen out of the window. Such and even worse are conditions in Berlin. The Jews are being treated here according to all the rules of the art, and what the newspapers write is not true. From the provincial towns the Tietz managers come to Berlin all beaten up, without a pfennig. They were beaten half to death and had to flee from their stores.
One dares not write out of fear that the letters are being opened. You can show this letter to your friends because what I write here is the truth. You know that they have also prohibited the slaughter of animals. What do you say to this? We also don’t know whether we will have Matzoh for Passover. It is time somebody did something. Here in Germany we are powerless against this government. . . .
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
