(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bobbed hair and jazz threaten to split the anti-Semitic Hakenkreuzler ranks here. Two factions within the Hakenkreuzler clashed at a meeting over the propriety of bobbed hair, abbreviated skirts and American jazz among the nationalist youth who they argued are deserting puritanical anti-Semitism.
The faction headed by Richls proposed modernizing anti-Semitism and fighting tactics which are now termed ridiculous.
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