If a hair on Hitler’s head is harmed or any other Nazi leader injured, the Jews will hang from the lamp posts, is the substance of a repeated threat uttered at Nazi election meetings and addressed to the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith as well.
The threatening letter received by the Central Union and signed by the “Terror Committee to Hunt Jews from Europe,” declared:
“If a hair of any Nazi government leader is touched, we will give the signal for a general massacre of Jews which will end only when all the Jews are dead.”
The Central Union, in a statement issued today, warns responsible leaders of the danger to the Jews which ensues if any political murders are identified with Jews. The statement points out that the Nazis continually utilize the death of their comrades in political clashes to blame the Jews and call for revenge against them, using the term “Communist” and “Jew” interchangeably.
The Jews, the statement says, are represented in the Communist Party to an inconspicuous degree. Since the division in the Communist ranks, moreover, almost all the Jewish leaders have been eliminated. While the Nazis persist in labelling the death of their comrades at the hands of Communists as “Jewish murders,” the non-anti-Semitic members of the cabinet have made no move to urge Minister of Interior for Prussia Goering to invoke the emergency decree to curb the agitation against the Jews, the Central Union points out.
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