ing the Nazi parades in connection with the parliamentary elections on Sunday. Numerous Jewish inhabitants were forced, while walking in the streets, to raise their arms in the Nazi salute.
The police in Danzig, being completely controlled by the Nazis, is undertaking no measures to stop the anti-Jewish propaganda stimulated by Streicher. It also does not intervene with the Nazi pickets who are stationed in front of Jewish stores, preventing non-Jews from entering them. No less than 200 Nazis have enlisted in the Danzig police force only during the last few days, since the election campaign reached its height.
The High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, Sean Lester, is openly ridiculed in the Nazi press here. Despite the fact that he represents the League of Nations, his authority is openly ignored by the city and state administration, which is practically in the hands of the Nazis. Efforts made by him to have the anti-Semitic propaganda in the Free City stopped, were without success.
The situation of the Jews in Danzig after the Danzig elections, will resemble that of the Jews in Germany.
Later serving under Napoleon as a colonel in the Polish legion, he was killed in the battle of Kotzk.
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