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Jest Costs Berlin Jewish Doctor’s Life

May 21, 1933
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should say “Heil, Hitler!” which, he said, would surely cure her.

As a result of this innocent joke, Nazi stormtroopers invaded Philipstahl’s place and kidnaped him in an automobile. His murdered body disclosed sins of tortures.

Jewish doctors throughout Germany, deprived of their livelihood by the series of discriminatory regulations enforced against them, are considering migration to points even as distant as China, since the majority of them have already been exposed to actual starvation and are prepared to do anything to earn a living.

While Jewish physicians of international repute are locating abroad, the majority of Jewish medical men cannot even raise money for their departure. Many are besieging the Russian Soviet consulates for visas, since the scarcity of doctors in Russia seems to furnish an opportunity there.

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