A number of Jews were badly beaten and others roughly handled during the Hitlerite demonstration yesterday which resulted in the withdrawal of the American talking picture, All Quiet on the Western Front. The entire uproar created by the Hitlerites in the theatre was of a definite anti-Semitic character.
The trouble began during the second showing of the film at the Nollendorfplatz Theatre where Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Berlin lieutenant, led the chorus that shouted “out with the Jews.” Outside the theatre Father Muenchenmayer, an anti-Semitic priest who was recently freed of court charges, delivered an anti-Jewish harangue to an assembled crowd.
Shouting “down with the Jews” and throwing all sorts of things at the screen the Hitlerites created a terrific uproar which was only ended when police intervened and cleared the theatre. In the midst of yells of “Germany awake. This film is an insult to German soldiers,” the members of the audience were having a number of free-for-all fights.
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