While Government-Councillor Lassally, a high police officer in Hamburg, who is a Jew, was questioning Police-Sergeant Friedrich Pohl in his office, pointing out to him that it was against the regulations for him to engage as a police officer in Hitlerist propaganda, the sergeant pulled out his service revolver and shot at him. Pohl, who has been arrested, declared that he shot at Lassally because he hates Jews. I wanted to kill Lassally, he added, but after the first shot my revolver jammed. I wasn’t going to have a Jew question me about what I was doing.
Another police sergeant named Moeller, who was found in Lassally’s ante-room with a loaded revolver, has also been arrested and will be charged with complicity in the attempt on Lassally’s life.
Lassally has been operated on and the bullet, which had lodged in his stomach, has been extracted. He is stated to be out of danger.
Jewish circles are alarmed by the outrage, regarding it as the first attempt to carry into action the Hitlerist slogan that "no German may be subordinate to a Jew or take orders from a Jew". It is feared that other attempts of a similar kind may be made by Hitlerists in the case of other Jewish high officials.
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