Anti-Jewish circulars stating that “the Jews have sentenced Hauptmann” and that the Hauptmann sentence is “a Jewish ritual murder” were distributed here yesterday by unknown persons, presumably members of local Nazi organizations, which on Wednesday launched a campaign in Yorkville Casino to obtain funds for releasing Hauptmann.
“Germans and Americans, awake!” the circular proclaims, “German compatriots, wake up and see in the Hauptmann sentence the hand of the all-powerful Jew in America. A German has been condemned to death on the basis of false testimony.”
The circular charges that Attorney General Wilentz used arguments to influence the jury which fully coincide with certain sayings of the Talmud.
“The sentence of Hauptmann was carried out exactly according to the modus of the Jewish cabbala,” the anti-Semitic leaflet asserts.
The circular cites many quotations from Der Stuermer, the notorious Jew-baiting publication of Julius Streicher, published in Nuremburg and condemned by the entire civilized world.
“Germans and Americans awake!” the leaflet exhorts. “The eleventh hour has struck. Don’t wait until the twelfth hour begins. It will then be too late for you. You may then find yourselves in the Jewish Communist World Collective. The sentence issued in Flemington is but a consequence of what is going on in Washington, Albany and New Jerusalem (say New York),” the proclamation says, attacking Bernard Baruch, Secretary Morgenthau, Governor Lehman, Mayor LaGuardia and others.
The allegation that “the Hauptmann case is a Jewish conspiracy against the German nation” was also made by a number of speakers at a meeting called by the New York Nazis on Wednesday evening at the Yorkville Casino. The meeting was attended by more than 3,000 persons and was addressed among others by Mrs. Hauptmann and by Hauptmann’s lawyer, Edward J. Reilly.
The meeting, at which the Nazi greeting, “Heil Hitler!”, was shouted several times by the audience, was called for the purpose of collecting funds to revive the Hauptmann case. Attorney General Wilentz was termed by the speakers “a representative of the Elders of Zion.” The entrance to the meeting was guarded by Nazi storm troopers in uniform.
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