Jews were accused by Der Angriff, an official Nazi party organ, of trying through the League of Nations to impose calendar reform on Christians and Mohammedans “to compel everyone to adjust themselves to the Jewish holidays and to observe an ‘international Shabbes’ (sabbath).”
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