Taking its lead from Hitler’s New Year’s address, in which he repeated his usual wild attacks on Jews, the press in Germany today opened up a renewed anti-Jewish campaign, aimed at stiffening the resistance of the Germans by warning them that they will be annihilated by “revengeful Jews” should Germany be defeated.
Leading the new anti-Jewish drive is Goering’s newspaper, Essener National Zeitung. It devotes a long article to the “criminal activities” of Jews in Rumania, Bulgaria and the Russian-liberated part of Hungary, stating that the Jews in these territories “revenged themselves” by denounding many Axis adherents and by participating in the “purifying apparatus” which the Russian Army established in these countries for the purpose of preventing pro-Nazi fifth-column activities.
“As soon as the Soviet armies marched into southern Europe.” the paper writes. “it became clear that the Jews played a considerable role in the fight hehind the front.” The article then pictures the Jewish guerrilla rithters as “Jewish criminals” who are not only anrious to help the Allied armies aganist the Germans, but who are out to kill Germans wherever they can.
The paper is especially incansed over the role which Jewish partisans played in Tito’s forces in Yugoslavis. “As an expression of gratitude for the aid of Jewish units, a new synagogue is now being constructed in Belgrade,” the article reports. Other German newspapers publish aimiled articles about the “Jewish avengers.”
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