Reports of intensifying anti-Jewish measures throughout Germany reached Paris tonight. In certain Reich cities, it was said, Jews are forbidden to buy food, while in others one Jew is assigned by the local authorities to obtain a small quantity of food from local wholesalers and distribute it to the entire Jewish population, provided that the “Aryan” population has first been supplied.
Jews in Emden have been officially forbidden to enter food shops, according to the Essener National Zeitung, and they can enter other stores only between 3 and 4 p.m. The Hanover Kurier said this measure would soon be introduced throughout Germany. In Magdeburg, two “Aryan” proprietors of delicatessen stores were arrested for selling food to two Jews, according to the Voelkischer Beobachter.
Leaders of Jewish communities all over the Reich have been informed by the authorities that they will be held personally responsible if any Jew is discovered listening to a radio. In Hamburg, Gestapo agents carried out searches on Yom Kimpour to establish if any had violated the order forbidding all German, Polish and “stateless” Jews to have radios in their homes.
While anti-Jewish propaganda in the press and over the radio continues unabated, the Nazi authorities have taken measures to isolate not only the Jews of Germany, the Protectorate and occupied Poland, but of neighboring neutral countries, detaining all mail en route to these countries that is addressed to Jews. Particularly affected by this action are the Jews of the Baltic countries, Since all their mail must pass through Germany, unless it comes via Scandinavian countries.
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