Prior to its suppression by the Austrian government the Nazi press here yesterday took a final slam at Jews by urging the convening of a huge anti-Semitic pan-Aryan world congress “for relieving the world of Jews.” The Nazi press claimed that Aryan parties from twenty-two countries have already agreed to participate in such a conference, the purpose of which will be to force Jews everywhere in the world to emigrate and form a Jewish National State, not in Palestine, because it is too small, but in Madagascar.
Madagascar is an island in the Indian Ocean and is the third largest island in the world. It is 260 miles distant from the southeastern coast of Africa. Since 1896 Madagascar has been a French colony.
Nazi newspapers here suggested that at the congress delegates could decide on the steps each country would take to make Jewish residents depart.
“Hitlerism will lead the pan-Aryan world movement to counteract Jewish domination,” one Nazi newspaper asserted.
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