The German radio today announced that the so-called “International Congress” of Axis-controlled journalists, which has been meeting in Vienna, concluded after voting to aid “by pen and sword” in the annihilation of the Jews and in the “liberation of the world from Angle-American imperialism.”
More than 350 journalists and writers from twenty European countries, including neutrals like Turkey and Switzerland, attended the congress, the Berlin radio reported. The principal speakers were Alfred Rosenberg, Knut Hamsun, and Rost Van Tonnigen, former League of Nations Commissioner from Austria, all of whom delivered violent anti-Jewish speeches.
The emphasis being placed on intensified anti-Jewish propaganda as a means of counteracting the defeatist spirit among the German people is indicated by the fact that Gen. Sundermann, a member of the German General Staff, was sent to the Vienna Congress to “explain” to the journalists the “guilt of the Jews” in the present war. Meanwhile, General Dietmar, chief military commentator over the German radio, surrendered his broadcast this week to a series entitled “Political Crimes of Jews During the Last 150 Years,” which are being delivered by a Dr. Wilhelm Koppen.
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