The propaganda line to be pursued by Adolph Hitler was indicated by the Nazi chieftain at the first election mass meeting held in Bavaria.
Sixty similar meetings will be organized by the Nazis. Hitler declared in his address that Chancellor Franz von Papen carried out the wish “of his Jewish superior, Jacob Goldschmidt,” the banker, when he offered Hitler only a post in the government, with the intention of destroying the Nazi movement and helping to realize the aims of Bolshevism.
A second speaker, Volver, Prime Minister of Oldenburg, openly adopted a pogrom tone, declaring that the wandering Jew incites the distress of the German race and creates the programs of all parties including those of the Nationalists and Communists in order to govern them. Therefore, he asserted, it is necessary for Germany once and for all time to free itself from the Jewish yoke.
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