The State Government of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has dissolved the Russian Nazi group composed of reactionary monarchist elements and former members of the infamous Black Hundreds, Russian anti-Semites who led the pogroms against the Russian Jews. At the same time their property was ordered confiscated. These former Russians have been conducting the strongest anti-Jewish propaganda, even outdoing the German Nazis in their bitterness against the Jews.
The closing down of their organization by the German authorities can be traced however to the protest lodged by the Soviet Ambassador in Berlin who claimed that the Russian Nazis were fomenting plots against the Soviet regime.
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