Intensification of anti-Jewish boycott activity in various sections of Germany was reported to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
The boycott assumed wide-spread proportions in the Wittenberg district where more than 1,000 business houses and hotels began to display signs such as this: “We Don’t Want to Deal with Jews.”
In the Roeckingen district farm hands refused to help Jewish farmers harvest their crops.
A sign posted at the entrance to the town of Ratzeberg declares that “Jews, Moths, Cockroaches Enter Our Town at Their Own Risk.”
Butchers in a section of the Altenkirchen district made public a resolution not to buy cattle from Jews.
In Schornsheim-am-Rhein, the municipal authorities decided not to hire artisans or truck drivers who were known to deal with Jews.
Persons dealing with Jews also were the target of a decree by the Nazi leaders of the city of Eisleben who ordered all such persons immediately dropped from the relief rolls.
A similar instance was reported today from Offenheim where all “Aryan” artisans were forced to take an oath that they as well as members of their families would not deal with Jews before receiving city orders.
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