A rabidly anti-Semitic tract 9,000 copies of which the federal investigation Agency confiscated early this month in this Alpine town, is actually the German translation of an American hate publication, it was established here today.
Called “The Bankers’ Conspiracy of Jekyl Island”, the confiscated German volume was translated by veteran german Jew-baiter Guido Roeder and brought out by his local publishing house, the “Widar-Verlag”. Shortly after the first World War, Roeder had a hand in issuing the first German edition of the “Protocols of the Eldezs of Zion”.
To advertise his new publication, Roeder distributed vast quantities of printed extracts illustrated with cartoons showing Bernard Baruch, Henry Morgenthau, James P. Warburg, Felix Frankfurter, David Lilienthal, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss and other prominent American Jews. The book itself is a German translation of a volume issued in the United States two years ago under the title “The Federal Reserve Conspiracy”.
Author of this American original is Eustace Mullins, a writer of hate literature who was at one time employed by the American Petroleum Institute Committee in New York and who sued it earlier this year for breach of contract. Mullins is now director of two Nazi-style bodies, the “Aryan League” in Virginia and the Real political Institute” in Chicago.
The German version of Mullins’ tract, which Roeder issued a short time ago, was confiscated in an unprecedented step taken by the Federal Investigation Agency at the direction of the Bonn Ministry of the Interior and on the basis of an order issued by the court at nearby Garmisch-Fartenkirchen.
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