“For the time being Jews in Germany will belong to an inferior and degraded class of inhabitants, nor can any effort be made to raise them from this level,” declares
Leonard G. Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Joint Foreign Committee, in a pamphlet published here today.
Citing the ousting of Jews from the German civil service and professions, Mr. Montefiore points out that to all practical purposes Jews are now unable to obtain a higher education in Germany.
Describing a “racket” that has arisen with Nazism, Mr. Montefiore says that Jewish shopkeepers and traders frequently are forced to hand over large sums of money to individuals on pain of denunciation to the police.
Many Jews, he reports, have received telephone calls to the effect that unless a certain amount of money is paid, the victim will find himself in a concentration camp.
The anti-Semitic campaign might have defeated its own purpose, the pamphlet says, were it not for the fact that the government fosters it systematically.
“It is not surprising that daughters from what were once comfortable middle-class homes are now found upon the streets,” Mr. Montefiore says.
“It is a crime to be born a Jew in the Third Reich,” the pamphlet concludes, “although there may be no reference to such an offense on the Statute Book.”
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