Deep concern is felt in the Jewish community here over the scheduled premier of “Oliver Twist” in Hamburg, The Jewish Central Committee, in conjunction with the German Association of Political Persecutes, has urged British authorities to cancel distribution of the film here.
(The New York Times, in a Berlin dispatch, reported today that an editorial in the British-licensed newspaper “Telegraf” emphasized that echoes of the demonstration yesterday “have shown frightening examples of the existence of anti-Semitic circles” in Berlin. The paper cited a telegram received from one Berliner who threatened that the “Berlin population will get even with the rowdy Jews.” Maximillian Muellers?busch, editor of the U.S.-licensed newspaper “Abend” acknowledged that, there might “latent anti-Semitism” in Berlin, which will now be nourished by “Oliver Twist,” the Times dispatch added.)
Lion Feuchtwanger, world-famous novelist, was invited today by the prosecutor to testify in the forthcoming trial at Hamburg of Veit Harlan, Nazi producer of the ##torious anti-Semitic film, “Jew Suess.”
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