Handwriting on the wall–literally –this week caused considerable flurry among University of Washington German students. The handwriting, which appeared Friday morning, in large letters chalked on the blackboard of a campus German classroom greeted students with this message, in German
“Down with the bloodthirsty Hitler! Up, you students, and fight against Hitlerism!”
It was signed “An International Student.”
Miss O. Terzieff, instructor, translated the message to the excited class–and then erased the sign, Monday, in a class recitation on Heinrich Heine, famous German Jewish poet, she declared, ” It is too bad Heine and other Jewish writers are condemned in Germany today, in spite of the great contributions Jews have made to German literature.”
Jewish members of the class denied authorship of the anti-Hitler “handwriting on the wall.”
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