Foreign diplomats heard Viktor Lutze, commander of the storm troops, at a meeting here describe Germany as a “hospitable land” whose hospitality had been violated by the Jews through their misbehavior.
“The Jews,” Herr Lutze declared, “must blame themselves for the treatment they are receiving at the hands of our country which is a hospitable land.”
Herr Lutze told the diplomats that “the racial policy of Germany is now the basis of the national conscience.”
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