The Deutsche Zukunft, leading German weekly, declared today that whether the United States elected Franklin D. Roosevelt or Alfred M. Landon as president, American public opinion would remain hostile to Germany.
It explained the ill-feeling as due, first, to persecution of Jews in the Reich; second, the opposition of American commerce and industry to Nazi economic methods, and, third, the nation’s embitterment over the loss of 126,000 men in the World War.
The periodical warned the Germans not to have any illusions about the American election since, as long as the Jews enjoy their “strong and ever-growing power,” neither of the political parties would display sympathy to the Reich, regardless of what steps Nazis in the United States make.
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