Defense of the anti-Semitic policy enforced by the Hitler regime was made here by Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, of Chicago, acting German consul general, in an address before the Junior Association of Commerce.
“The Jewish question in Germany is an internal problem which we German people feel justified in solving in our own house,” Dr. Tannenberg insisted.
“The chief desire behind the anti-Semitic program is to remove the strong Jewish influence from political life,” he declared, adding that charges of Jewish persecution in Germany have been “grossly exaggerated.”
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