Reports are coming in from various parts of the country of suicides committed by Jews because of the despair in which the present situation in Germany has plunged them.
Alfons Pressburger, a Jewish cattle dealer, committed suicide at his home in Grafing, near Munich, because he was suspected of spreading atrocity reports. He preferred death by his own hand to arrest by the Nazis. Pollak, Director of the Landsberger Bank in Glogau, was found poisoned on a train bound for Berlin. His suicide, it is believed, was due to the National Socialist boycott which had ruined his business.
Weiner, a well-known Jewish lawyer in Chemnitz, was murdered by Nazis who kidnapped him from his home. The police issued a statement in which they expressed the belief that the kidnappers were not Nazis but provocateurs. A gold watch and one hundred Marks were found on the person of Weiner, which the kidnappers did not touch.
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