Jews owning real estate in the German capital today were threatened with imprisonment if they refused to sign documents transferring to the Nazi Labor Front the administration of their properties. In Nuremberg the Labor Front summoned Jewish real estate owners and ordered them to sign documents transferring ownership of their property to the Front. Many did so. It was understood that they permitted to retain 10 percent of its value. Similar steps against Jewish property owners have been taken elsewhere in Germany.
A decree forbidding the wearing of uniforms by Jews who have belonged to the old or the new German army, to the Austria-Hungarian army, or to the post-war Austrian army was issued by Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The Nazi press meanwhile continued its violent attack upon British and United States leaders who have condemned the anti-Semitism in Germany.
Robert Coulondre, new French Ambassador to Germany, arrived here by train from Paris. (It was believed in Paris that Coulondre would act immediately, in concert with United States and British officials in Berlin, on the Jewish refugee question.)
New Government measures to punish Germany’s Jews for “all acts of terrorism against the German people and for every Jewish provocation,” even if committed abroad, were promised here tonight by the Nazi Party Korrespondenz. The Nazi organ violently assailed the Jews for “crimes against the race.”
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