Nazis Arrest Briton for Defending Jews

For voicing his disapproval in a private conversation of the Nazi campaign against the Jews, Gebhard Mosel, a London research chemist born in Munich and now a naturalized British subject, was today arrested by Nazi secret police while on a visit to his birthplace. He will be brought to trial in a civil court.

In defending the Jews, Mosel had declared to his companian “Why, my best friend, my employer, is a Jew!”

All travel agencies in the Harz mountain district today received a circular letter from Herr Klagges, president of the Harz Transport Union, warning that local authorities must adhere strictly to the orders of the Nazi leaders and must notify Jewish guests and tourists that they are undesirable.

Authorities in the resort places in the mountains were also ordered not to permit Jewish hotels to advertise, directly or indirectly, as this constitutes “Jewish propaganda.”

Jews were prohibited from acquiring property also in Freystadt, where the mayor today issued a decree to that effect.

The Reichs Federal Sports Association yesterday decreed that sports clubs throughout Germany set the month of September aside for a general discussion of the Jewish question.

This decree is in direct violation of a promise to the International Olympic Committee that Germany would not introduce anti-Jewish propaganda in the field of sports.

At the same time the wave of anti-Jewish discriminations in other fields of endeavor continued throughout Germany.

In Seckenburg, near Tilsit, the Red Cross Women’s Association passed a resolution to boycott Jewish stores and to refuse employment to Jewish doctors.

An anti-Jewish demonstration in Luebeck forced the closing of a Jewish department store. As a result, sixty “Aryan” employes were thrown out of jobs. The Nazi district leader issued an appeal to “Aryan” firms to employ the dismissed workers.

Central headquarters of the German Labor Front prohibited Jewish firms from displaying flags on national holidays on the ground that the national colors are not to be displayed by Jews.

Two Jewish publications were ordered suspended by the Nazi authorities. They are the Israelitisches Familienblatt, a weekly published in Frankfurt-am-Main and Der Morgen, a German-Jewish monthly.