French newspapers reported today the discovery in Alsace of secret instructions issued from Berlin to Nazi agents abroad to drop anti-Communist propaganda and concentrate on agitation against the Jews.
At the same time newspapers said that despite increased anti-Jewish propaganda within the Reich, a change of spirit was noticeable among many Germans, who were sympathizing with the Jews and found no justification for severe anti-Semitic measures.
The purported instructions to Nazi agents abroad follow: “It should be understood that all attacks against any member of the Soviet Government are to be dropped Also, attacks against Communism as such must be diminished and ultimately dropped.
“On the other hand, propaganda against the Jews must become more severe and the guiding policy must be that Jewry, having lost its chances with Stalin, has joined the western capitalist democracies for the purpose of destroying by war the two great countries–Germany, which has already emancipated itself from the Jews, and Russia, whose leader realized in time the danger of a new capitalist re-Judaization and who acted accordingly. Russia and Germany did not want this war, which is in the interests of the Jewish capitalists.
“It must be seen to that the neutral countries contribute to the formation of an anti-Jewish coalition. The lull produced by the dropping of anti-Communism from our propaganda should be balanced by increased propaganda against the Jewish democratic western capitalism”
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