The American Ambassador, F. M. Sackett, has made representations here to the German Foreign Office in connection with three cases of American citizens who had been attacked by Nazis. Two of the cases concern American Jews — Nathaniel Wolff of Rochester, N. Y., and Henry Sattler of New York City.
Wolff has made a deposition on oath to the Embassy, declaring that his room had been broken into by a band of uniformed Nazis early Monday morning. He declares in his statement that he was struck on the face, searched and forced to sign a document undertaking that he would leave Germany immediately. He was afterwards taken outside the city, mishandled, and left in a wood.
Wolff has since left Berlin.
Henry Sattler, the second Jew, who suffered at the hands of the Nazis also gave the American Embassy details of his mishandle.
It is significant that the representations by Ambassador Sackett have been followed immediately by the publication of a communique issued by the Nazis. claiming that the persons responsible for the attacks on the American citizens were not Nazis but Communists disguised as Nazi Storm Troopers. Inquiry in Embassy circles show that this communique is not seriously regarded there.
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