“beobachter”, Nazi Organ, Slanders English Jews

Slanderous accusations against Anglo-Jewry are featured in Friday’s issue of the “Voelkischer Beobachter”, regarded as the official organ of the Nazi party. The “Beobachter” devotes the best part of eight pages to the most blood-thirsty of agitations in favor of the boycott against German Jewry. It introduces the detailed instructions for the conduct of the boycott, with an alleged quotation from a Jewish scientist, Julius Landau, to the effect that “if German people knew what German Jews did to Germany during the War, they would have been murdered on the open streets”. This statement is featured on the front page, together with an extensive quotation from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, intending to show the so-called power of International Jewry.

Apparently dissatisfied merely with spreading its propaganda within Germany, the “Beobachter” is now attempting also to drag in Anglo-Jewry. Under the heading “England’s Safety in Danger”, it reports that Anglo-Jewry is now under Communist influence, and that a blacklist of nationally-minded Germans residing in England has been compiled there for the purpose of exercising discrimination against them. It further alleges that the so-called spontaneous Jewish boycott against German goods in England is really directed by the Communist International. The “Beobachter” goes on to describe public opinion in England as being aware of the Communist character of the Jewish boycott. The Nazi paper even goes the length of describing the recent attempted assault on the Prince of Wales during a recent visit to Glasgow as due to the work of “Communists who are now the allies of the Jews.”

Of interest also is the “Beobachter’s” reference to the remarks made by the German Consul in New York, Dr. Kiep. at the banquet given by the J.T.A. and the Hebrew University in honor of Professor Einstein. It repeats Dr. Kiep’s remark that he thanked America on behalf of Germany for the hospitality shown to Einstein. The “Beobachter” merely adds, “comment is superfluous”.