–Enlisted to “fight the boycott now being waged in this country against everything German,” fifty members of the German Boys’ League of New York city, attired in brown shirts, stopped here today en route to Buffalo to organize a branch.
They were a source of amusement and much heckling as they marched in formation into a downtown restaurant purported to be operated by a Nazi sympathizer.
Led by Hugo Haas of Brooklyn, leader of the Hitler Youth Group, the brown-shirted youths rode into Binghamton on a truck, singing the Horst Wessel, national Nazi anthem.
Haas told newspapermen that the aim of the German Boys’ League, or Deutsche Jungensehaft, is to unite German youth in this country in “the spirit of the new Germany” and to fight the boycott against German goods.
“They must keep themselves conscious that they are Germans,” Haas asserted.
He admitted that the boycott is affecting German trade, with reference to anti-Nazi sentiment in this country he said:
“Who can help America against it but we, the Germans in America?”
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