The racial lines now in existence in Germany, and which the Nazi regime is furthering, are intended for Jews only and not for Japanese, Hindus or other Asiatic nations, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior, in the Nazi cabinet, declared last night in an official statement to the German press.
Dr. Frick declared most emphatically that the alarming attitude against the racial policy of Germany, which was recently assumed by Japanese and Hindu newspapers is groundless, because German racial policy will hit only the Jews. The Nazis, Dr. Frick stated, consider the nations of Asia as “ancient nations of high culture and the German government is far from desiring to eliminate them.”
Apparently in a desire to justify the steps being taken by the Nazi government against the Jews, the German press is suddenly filled with inspired statistics proving that the Jewish population of Prussia increased ten per cent between 1919 and 1925.
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