J. D. B. News Letter

question at all of the fundamental attitude of the German People’s Party.”

The State Party, which was formed at the last Reichstag elections by a fusion of the Old Democratic Party with several other groups, has also given the Jewish Telegraphic Agency an official statement, in which it declared:

“The German State Party in accordance with its program stands out sharply against the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazis. It perceives this propaganda as harmful to Germany as a civilized nation, and a grave menace to internal peace. It combats the demand that the German Jews should be placed under the aliens laws, as a fundamental violation of the principal of equal citizen rights which is guaranteed by the Constitution, and regards the call to confiscate the property of immigrant alien Jews living in Germany as a purely Bolshevist demand. The German State Party will vigorously fight against any attempt by any Government to put such program points into execution. The German State Party takes its stand on the program of complete equal rights for all citizens. The Jewish question therefore does not exist for our Party. The German Jew is to us a German, with the same rights and duties. In the same way the alien Jew who does not possess German citizenship is in our view to be treated in law like any other subject of a foreign State.”

The statements were made in reply to a questionnaire submitted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency which asked the various political parties for a statement of their attitude on the anti-Semitic propaganda conducted by the Nazi Party, and the demand to place the German Jews under the alien laws, and to confiscate the property of the alien Jews who have immigrated into Germany; the attitude of the Party if a Nazi or overwhelmingly Nazi Government in the Reich or in the States should proceed to carry these points in its program into effect; and the attitude of the Party generally on the Jewish question in Germany.