Reports of serious mistreatment of Jews in Landau, Germany, a town in Wuerttenberg, on June 20 and 21 reached here today.
Nazi hooligans, according to reports, crashed into a cafe owned by a Jew and forced all visitors present to lift their hands over their heads and stand with their faces to the wall. The Nazi roughnecks there-upon set upon the Jews in the crowd and beat many of them unconscious with rubber sticks.
On the following day twelve Jews were arrested by the Nazis. Surrounded by jeering mobs carrying insulting anti-Semitic placards, the Jews were marched down the streets and finally taken to an isolated house on the outskirts of the town.
Once inside the house they were given a mock trial, and then inhumanly beaten. To make matters worse, when they recovered consciousness they were forced to sign declarations stating that they had never been touched.
Mayor Schaaf, of Landau, a militant Hitlerite, addressed a Nazi throng at a meeting in the market place after the incidents. He publicly boasted of the beatings administered to the Jews and declared that far worse happenings were still in store for the Jews of Landau.
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