Goebbels Warns Foreigners in Germany Not to Associate with Jews

Foreigners in Germany have been warned by Goebbels to abstain from walking through Berlin streets in the company of Jews unless they wish to be considered as elements hostile to the Reich, Swedish newspapers reported today from Berlin.

The warning of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda follows the sudden disappearance from the American Embassy in Berlin of Dr. Walther Pick, one of the two non-American Jewish employees of the embassy who have to wear a Star of David. It comes close on the heels of Goebbels’ warning last week to Germans that they will be considered as traitors to the German cause should they be caught sympathizing with Jews.

“Foreign non-Jews who parade in the streets of Berlin with Jews are arousing the feelings of Germans. They deserve to wear a Star of David,” Goebbels writes in Das Reich, official organ of the Ministry of Propaganda.

“Many non-Jewish foreigners,” he continues,” explain their provocative behavior with the argument that ‘Jews are also human beings.’ To this our reply is that murderers, seducers of children, thieves and pimps are similarly human beings, but none will parade with them on Kurfuerstendamn. Some of these foreigners argue that ‘their Jew is a decent Jew’ and that they have known each other for years. To this our answer is that there is no reason to give a guard of honor to any Jew. Their walking with non-Jews on the street is nothing but a defensive reaction to having to wear the Star of David.”

Goebbels concludes his article by saying that the fact that the American and British press are able to report the Berlin anti-Jewish measures within twenty-four hours after they have been issued proves that “even today Jews have secret connections with hostile countries and use them not only in their own cause, but also in matters of importance to the Reich,” since most of the recent anti-Jewish regulations were published in the American newspapers long before they were made public in the German press.