Germany’s educated classes were indicted today by the Manchester Guardian, noted liberal paper, for having permitted the continuation of the persecution of the German Jews. Blame for the outrages on German Jewry was placed squarely on their shoulders.
The Guardian published a special article reviewing the ten months of Nazi persecution of the Jews, insisting that, in addition to the official anti-Jewish legislation, persecution of the Jews is still going on today, although successfully concealed by the repressive measures undertaken by the German government.
LAW WORKS ONE WAY
It pointed out that although nominally there was fully equality before the German law, actually the laws protected the Germans against the Jews, while seldom protecting the Jew against the German. Thus, the Guardian declared, Jews are frequently unable to collect debts or even to complain of outright thefts by Nazis, while the withdrawal of citizenship from the German Jews will mean that, unlike foreigners, Jews will have no consuls to protect them.
In the German professional journals, the article charges, doctors and chemists continuously incite for persecution of the Jews. While the uneducated have been the instrument of the originators of the persecution, on the whole the masses had no part in the persecution of the Jews, says the newspaper.
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