Bewildering Contradictions in Nazi Utterances

of Jewish stores. I am asked to interfere. After all, nothing has happened except that we Germans proclaim: ‘Germans, do not buy from Jews, buy from Germans’!”

He went on to say, “They tell me that I must call out the police to protect them. Certainly, I shall employ the police, and without mercy, wherever German people are hurt, but I refuse to turn the police into a guard for Jewish stores. We must make an end of a nuisance in which every rogue may appeal to the police for help. They have created as much excitement as if there were two or three thousand dead every morning, when no one has yet lost so much as an ear or a nose. Police should protect only honest Germans,” he concluded, “but not rogues, swindlers, profiteers, or traitors.”

In responsible circles, it is expected that Hitler’s appeal will make an end of the campaign against Jewish businesses, and the attacks against individuals, although, it is at the same time realized that Goering’s broadcast may, in certain areas, intensify the agitation. It is also felt that the rise in general unemployment due to the compulsory closing down of many businesses, may have a sobering effect on the authorities. Thus, it is pointed out that the firm of Tietz alone, which has been subjected to considerable disturbance at its many branches throughout the country, employs some 40,000 people, apart from many workers engaged in the industries supplying its stores.

Commenting on the obvious disagreement between Hitler’s communique and Goering’s speech at Essen, the “Deutscher Algemeinerzeitung,” the organ of von Papen, declares that while it does not wish to enlarge on the differences, it is obvious that Goering is still indulging in election speeches. It adds that it is on Hitler’s words only that reliance should be put.