The big Berlin Department Stores in the Alexander Platz owned by the Jewish firm of Tietz, which owns a series of chain stores throughout Germany, was attacked to-day by Hitlerist storm troops, who drove up in a motor lorry and started a regular bombardment with stones, smashing five huge plate-glass windows. The crowd of shoppers and the few police on the spot were taken by surprise by the suddenness of the attack, and before any pursuit could be organised the lorry had driven off and was lost in the traffic. It is believed that the attack on the Tietz Store was the prelude to a big effort to organise anti-Jewish excesses in the fashionable shopping district in the vicinity of the Grenadierstrasse, where many of the shops are owned by Jews, on the lines of the outbreak there at the time of the opening of the new Reichstag.
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