Boycott of German Jewry Gathers Momentum As Reich Radio Broadcasts Instructions

Confirmation by Nazi headquarters of the boycott of German Jewry was broadcast last night over the whole network of German radio stations in a manner and in language which constituted the sharpest and most unveiled anti-Jewish incitement heard since the assumption of power by the Nazis.

The proclamation detailing the methods to be followed in the boycott, were ordered to be featured in tomorrow’s press throughout the country.

The proclamation declares that German Jewry carries the fullest responsibility for the defamation of Germany abroad, because if German Jews had wished it. they could have put a stop to it. It describes the forthcoming boycott as a war of 65,000,000 Germans against international Jewry. It assures the German public that just as the Nazis had succeeded in suppressing Marxism within the borders of Germany, they would, as effectually, combat international Jewry.

Discussing ironically the indignation aroused in America, the proclamation says that America, which is now espousing the cause of aliens in Germany, had shut its own gates to immigration when its population was no more than 15 to the square kilometer, while Germany, though it has a population density of 135 to the square kilometer, nevertheless permitted tens of thousands of foreigners into the country. In gratitude for this considerate treatment, continues the statement, the Jews of the world have now combined to defame Germany. But an end had now come to this state of affairs, it proclaims, because it is no longer the old Germany of the cowardly middle-class with which the Jews had to deal, but a new Germany, which was now in control of its own destinies.

To the eleven points governing the projected anti-Jewish boycott, as previously announced, last night’s radio broadcast added further details and directions. Peasants are asked to boycott Jewish peddlers and workers; trade unions are directed to organize a boycott against Jewish workmen, but to avoid action against any whose Jewishness is doubtful until their racial affiliation is ascertained from the Munich headquarters of the Nazis. At the same time, it is laid down that the boycott must be ruthless and must be directed not only against all Jews but also against any acting as their figureheads.

In addition to the broadcasted proclamation, placards, leaflets and newspapers throughout the whole country announce the opening of the boycott punctually for 10 o’clock on Saturday morning.

Simultaneously with the publication of the boycott details, goes the incessant denial, in the form of proclamation, newspaper articles and statements stigmatizing the tales of atrocities against Jews as malicious incitement conducted by cowardly Jewish literateurs and professors who had escaped abroad and were cooperating with Jewish finance in an endeavor to defame Germany in the same way as had occurred during the War.

An earnest of the seriousness of the boycott is indicated by the appointment today of a “Central Executive Actions Committee” charged with conducting the boycott. The Committee in its first announcement declares that the boycott is a task second only to that of the Nazi revolution. Already peasants from the Rhineland and the Union of Officers have telegraphed to Hitler thanking him for his energetic measures against the Jews.

Not less thorough in the preparations for the anti-Jewish boycott are the efforts which are being made to counteract the effect abroad. The Commercial Travellers Association has issued instructions to all German commercial travelers abroad, asking them to dispel the stories of excesses and discrimination against Jews. Similar messages have been sent to Germans residing abroad, to German shipping companies, trading houses, and German personalities who are regarded as being influential in particular fields.