A department store in Krefeld, owned by a Jew, Leonard Tietz, was bombed today while crowded with customers.
The customers and the sales staff were able to make their way to the street without injury, but not before a panic ensued. Firemen called to extinguish the blaze were compelled to use gas masks. The bomb thrower escaped.
Simultaneously a bomb was exploded in the Woolworth store in Krefeld.
The bombers of the Kiel synagogue will be placed on trial next week, it was announced today.
The demolition of a synagogue in Reichsbach, Silesia, was prevented today when the bomb exploded in the hand of the Nazi who was about to hurl it.
The Nazi was killed instantly, while his collaborator, a Nazi named Wagner, was arrested. The latter testified that the bomb was intended for the synagogue as a revenge “upon the enemies of the Nazis.”
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