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Nazi Paper Hits Plan for Statue of Negress; Fears Ridicule of Jewish Press

February 5, 1939
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The S.A. Mann, official organ of the Nazi storm troopers, tonight bitterly attacked plans to erect a statue of a Negress as the central figure of a monument to the war-lost German colonies soon to be raised at Potsdam. “If we put up a statue of a black woman in the city of the Soldier King (Frederick the Great),” the newspaper said, “the Jewish world press will have the chance to say that we are ridiculing our own racial policy.”

The paper observed with regret that German “Aryan” principles were not being more strictly adhered to “at a time when the Reich is going to be able soon to regain her colonies.”

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