Danger for the Jews in Germany this winter was foreseen by Carl Mechel, retired Milwaukee business man and vice-president of the local Steuben Society, on his return yesterday from a trip to Germany.
Mechel, who claimed he “didn’t approve of all Hitler has done,” declared that “if the German public should realize this winter that the Jewish boycott (sic) is responsible for their want of food and goods I pity every Jew living in Germany.”
Hitler’s most undiplomatic move was his discrimination against the Jews, “a mistake that is now, I believe, admitted by the German government,” Mechel said.
The world boycott on German goods has “hurt Germany tremendously,” Mechel declared, adding that “as a sincere friend of the Jewish people I want to warn them about continuing the boycott.” Otherwise, “the things the press has blamed Hitler for may actually happen.”
Though he didn’t approve of many of Hitler’s acts, Mechel insisted Hitler had “done great good for his country.”
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