Zuffenhausen, Sihler & Co., one of the largest leather manufacturing firms in the country, has passed into “Aryan” hands. The buyers were Salamander, former Jewish leather and shoe concern, and a group of other leather houses.
It is pointed out that the transfer of the large leather concern coincided with the swift growth of the ADEBE, new anti-Semitic organization now active in the weaving, clothing and leather industries.
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