The Berlin newspaper Democratic German Report has published photostatic copies of official documents proving that Dr. H. Lehr, Minister of the Interior and Police Chief of the West German Government, issued orders discriminating against Jews when he served as Mayor of Dusseldorf in the early days of the Nazi regime.
The photostats are of notices which appeared in the Dusseldorf Gazette of March, 1933, instructing municipal offices to terminate contracts with Jewish businessmen and to cancel court actions in which Jewish lawyers were involved. The two notices were signed by Dr. Lehr, Lord Mayor of Dusseldorf.
The same Democratic German Report carries a dispatch from Hamburg to the effect that a “Literary circle” f the German Party of that city burned books of a number of progressive and Jewish writers after the chairman of the literary meeting called for a crusade against “Jewish pacifist books” which he said are “undermining the military backbone of the German people. “The German Party is one of the three parties in the Bonn Government coalition.
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