The drought, which has so severely affected German agriculture and which threatens German food supplies, is the direct punishment by God for Nazi crimes against Catholics, Protestants and Jews, peasants in the rural districts of Germany told a special investigator of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency who has just returned from a tour of provincial regions.
Farmers whose crops have been destroyed by the drought, gathered in village beer halls, told the investigator that the “drought, is God’s punishment for the government’s anti-Jewish policy.”
The Nazi government will withdraw support from German farmers who have business dealings with Jews, the Fraenkische Tageszeitung, Nazi paper, threatened today.
“The farmers of Nuremberg are today openly and shamelessly engaged in business dealings with Jews,” the paper declared, adding that transactions with Jews are incomprehensible since Jews are to blame for the present plight of the German farmers. “The Jews exploit the farmers to death,” the Nazi paper said.
The campaign initiated by the Fraenkische Tageszeitung is obviously designed to counteract the growing discontent of the German farmers with the Nazi government policy of fixing prices in order to maintain the low cost of foodstuffs.
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