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Jewish Doctors Poisonous, Writes Medical Commissar

June 2, 1933
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A violent campaign against Jewish doctors has been resumed in Brandenburg, where Medical Commissar Rupin, in an article in the medical journal titled “Down with Jew Doctors”, appealed for complete exclusion of Jewish physicians.

“Doctors, in their position of confidence towards their patients are enabled to exercise considerable influence on the population, thus offering an opportunity to Jew doctors to infuse the poison of Jewish thoughts. Therefore Jewish doctors must be ruthlessly removed from the medical profession. The Jews are the incarnation of lies and betrayal.”

His appeal concludes with a demand for drastic punishment for any breach of confidence by a member of the profession. The Frankfurter Zeitung, republishing the text of the article, editorially expresses the hope that the authorities will disassociate themselves at the present time from such wild expressions apart from the fact that hundreds of thousands of the population owe their lives to treatment by Jewish physicians.

Other newspapers, however, feature the appeal without comment or in an approving tone.

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