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Jews Fear Force in Plebiscite; Nazi Press Flays ‘non-aryans’

August 5, 1934
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Despite the fact that the entire German nation is in deep mourning for the death of the aged Reichspresident, Paul von Hindenburg, the bitter anti-Jewish campaign, now in full swing all over Germany, has not been halted even for a single day.

The Deutscher Mittelstand, official organ of the Nazi Artisans Association, which embraces all skilled craftsmen, today listed all the Jewish firms in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main in order that all good “Aryans” may boycott them. The entire front page of the paper was devoted to the list of Jewish firms under a banner headline, “Avoid Jews; Don’t Be Traitors.”

The West Deutscher Beobachter, a leading Nazi daily, today published a leading article on its front page calling upon the German peasants to realize that all their troubles are due not to the drought or the Nazi laws, but to the evil machinations of the Jews.

All Franconian papers, in the domain of Julius Streicher, are again filled with photographs of “Aryans” who dared to patronize Jewish places of business.

In the towns of Karlsburg all houses bore signs, “Jews are not admitted here.”

Der Angriff, mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, in a full-page article, accused the Jews of deliberately working up hatred against Germany every-

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