Der Angriff, leading Nazi paper edited by Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels, is continuing its attacks on the Jews. Under a heading, “What Jews Permit Themselves,” Der Angriff printed an article relating the wounding of an S.S. man, member of the black uniformed picked Hitler guards, during the anti-Jewish boycott day, April 1, 1933.
According to Der Angriff, the wounded man, Wilhelm Asthalter, demanded damages from the Jewish furniture dealer, Herr Schumm. Asthalter was on duty in front of Schumm’s store and “was suddenly shot in the back by Schumm’s son, hovering for months between life and death.” Asthalter, Der Angriff declared, never recovered fully and Schumm refused to pay reasonable damages.
During the negotiations, Schumm, according to the Nazi paper, “haggled instead of paying and atoning for the scoundrelism of his son.”
Der Angriff neglected to mention, however, that Schumm was an officer in the German army during the World War and that his son was killed by the Nazis on anti-Jewish boycott day while defending his father’s shop.
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