An order to all Jewish communities in the Reich to submit lists of their members to the Gestapo has been issued by Heinrich Himmler, head of German police forces, it was reported today from Berlin via Switzerland.
It was not known whether the Gestapo wished the information for possible action against the Jews in connection with the Munich bombing or for the transfer of Jews to the projected Jewish “reservation” in the Lublin district of Poland.
However, French press and radio predicted grave events ahead for the Reich Jews as a result of the attempt on Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s life. The Paris radio emphasized that the Gestapo might use the Munich explosion as a pretext for striking the strongest blow against the Jews they have yet experienced in the Reich.
Paris newspapers asked: “What did Nov. 10, 1938 bring and what will Nov. 10, 1939, bring?” referring to the pogroms in Germany last year following the assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris.
Newspapers quoted the German press to show that an atmosphere of terrorism, chiefly against the Jews, was being worked up in the Reich and that many Nazi papers were going out of their way to remind readers of last year’s events in order to prepare the ground for a similar development now.
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