All Jewish vendors in Dessau, Prussia, on the Elbe River, have been driven from the marketplaces, where they had traded freely for many years. The Dessau municipality issued a statement, after complaints were made, that “Jews should be thankful they still are permitted to remain in Germany altogether.”
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