Details of Terror in Letters to N. Y.

Zurich, April 2nd.

It all happened as I thought, and we had to flee.

I have been here since Friday. I was lucky to get out because since last week passports to Jews have been annulled. Switzerland, Holland, France, etc. are crowded with Jewish refugees. . . .

You have no idea of what is happening in Germany. I could not write you previously because each letter going out or coming from abroad is being opened. Therefore, be careful not to write home anything of a political nature because it will only cause them suffering. From here in Zurich I can write to you whatever I want, and vice versa.

In — it was not as bad comparatively as in other towns. However, they smashed all the windows in all the Jewish stores and many were taken in “protective” arrest. If they know nothing about you they invent everything possible.

A week ago on an open street 15 Nazis attacked — and beat him up with a rubber knout. He has died in the meantime. You are lucky that you are no longer in Germany. The only solution would be to kill all Jews because that would be better than having them slowly die of starvation. . . .

Now the hooligans are taking all possible measures against the atrocity propaganda abroad. After all it is the same whether the Jews die of starvation or if they are dismembered by them daily. If people in the United States believe this propaganda (against the atrocities), tell them it is all true. Everything that is happening now in Germany is kept secret. The newspapers may write only what the government wants them to write. All liberal papers have been prohibited. If only one word against the government is published, arrests take place.

NAZIS PROD PRISONERS

Saturday I saw a nice scene in Frankfort. The Chamber of Commerce there called its members together for a meeting in order to decide whether businessmen should not voluntarily close the stores. The meeting had just come to an end and when they wanted to leave, all of the 35 present, among them the most important business men of Frankfort,—Bamberger and Hertz, Auman and Rapp—were arrested by the Nazi storm troopers.

The Nazis came with drawn guns, conducted the Jews from the police headquarters through the entire town to the prison. During the march they had to keep their hands clasped behind their necks. Whoever did not do so was prodded by the butt of the gun. You say such a thing is impossible, but I assure you here everything is possible. I am so excited than I can hardly write.

March 27, 1933.

Karl was with me last week and told me that he will transfer his business to Strassburg because he does not want to be treated as a second class citizen. . . . He advised me also to leave Germany because one needs only to be denounced and one gets into an internment camp and does not know whether he will ### out again alive. . . .

In Regensburg Jews were ### rested. The following day one ### them was found at the morg### with his head broken.

In Munich they arrested — ### and now he is dead.

Justizrat Siegel, who wanted ### complain, was thereupon still ### mistreated and was dragged throug# the city with bare feet and his trou##sers cut off, bearing an inscriptio# on a placard, “I will not compla## again.” . . .

All Jewish judges have been dis## missed and it is questionable whether Jews can ever win a trial in Germany now. More than thirty thous and people are said to be interned.

In B—two Jews were taken. They were forced, while the Nazis pressed their nostrils, to drink a bottle of castor oil. Then they were tied under the — and were conducted for two hou### through the village. The oil ha# its effect and the peasants look ### on gleefully.

For the last four weeks the ### has had no income whatever beca### in this small town nobody ### into a Jewish store.