Jews were disturbed today at a revival of anti-Jewish agitation, which for some weeks had been overshadowed by other political events.
Apprehension was particularly aroused over a sensational headline in the Voelkischer Beobachter, principal Nazi organ founded by Chancellor Hitler, which declared that Jews were threatening “new assassinations” similar to that of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi agent who was slain in Switzerland last February.
The headline tops a four-column story which reviews the Chur trial of Gustloff’s slayer, David Frankfurter, who is now serving an 18-year term, but which contains nothing to substantiate its allegations of “assassination threats.”
In another column, the Beobachter reports under the headline, “Tactics of the Jewish World League,” a meeting of Nazi party, military and civil officials at which an official of the Propaganda Ministry, Wolfgang Diewerge, charged that Jews stimulate international political trials against Germany in order to keep public opinion abroad antagonistic to the Nazi regime.
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