Germany’s credit abroad is being seriously damaged by the uncontrolled anti-Semitic tirades and agitations of the National Socialists, the Reichstag was warned today by M. Hoegener, a Socialist deputy from Munich, in the course of the political discussion.
Condemning the Fascist inspired attacks on the Jews, Deputy Hoegener charged in the Reichstag that the former German princes were providing the financial sinews for the anti-Semitic agitation of the Nazis. This charge was first made yesterday in the Acht Uhr Abendblatt which claimed that the ex-Kaiser was a heavy contributor to the Fascist war chest.
The former members of the royal family who now belong to the Nazis can well afford to grant large sums for anti-Semitic propaganda, Deputy Hoegener declared, because “the ancestors of these princes borrowed plentifully of the funds of the ancestors of the Jews who are now being attacked. The fore-
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