The slight wounding of a Christian woman, a Miss Oliver, in Hyde Park, London, by a demented Jewish youth, forms the basis of another wild attack on the Jews in Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter. The incident proves, the paper asserts, “who actually is indulging in atrocities even against defenseless women.”
The fact that the youth is believed by the police to be deranged and that he was taken to an asylum instead of being held for trial is explained by the paper as Jewish manipulation to squash the case and give “all Juda sufficient time to start an offensive for the release of the poor madman.”
The facts of the case, as the Voelkischer Beobachter did not report them, are that the youth, Barney Bloomstein, meeting Miss Oliver, a stranger to him, in Hyde Park, cried out “I’ll take revenge on the Germans!” and stabbed her slightly. His victim was not German, but English. It is not expected that Bloomstein will be tried as the police are satisfied he is insane.
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