Nazi Agents Spread Propaganda in Mexico, Unchecked by Government

By Mail – A group of Nazi agents arrived here recently and are spreading among the Mexican population propaganda against the Jews and for Hitlerism. They are conducting their activities with the aid of the Golden Shirts, Mexican anti-Semitic Fascist organization.

“Jewry and Crime” is the name of one of the pamphlets distributed by the Nazi agents in trolley cars throughout the capital and in many towns and cities of the provinces. Information contained in the pamphlet was compiled by the Nazi secret police in Germany under the direction of General Dalige.

The pamphlet charges that the Jews always contributed the largest percentage of criminals in Germany and that Nazism did away with them, but that Germany is now overrun by Jewish criminals in industry and commerce and that Jews are engaged in gambling and narcotic traffic.

One of the pamphlets, sent here from Germany and bearing the imprint of the Falkan Verlag, Leipzig, is published by the anti-Semitic league, Deutsche Fuechte Bund. Readers are asked to spread the pamphlets and invited to write to the Verlag for a free supply.

The propaganda is conducted without interference although Mexican law prohibits spreading of race hatred, particularly by foreigners.

One instrument of propaganda was checked recently when the government prohibited the film “Loyal to the Death,” a UFA picture depicting the clash between Nazis and Communists during the early days of the Hitler revolution. The official explanation

of the ban is that it might have stirred clashes among the workers. The newspaper Excelsior sharply criticized the government for banning the film, accusing it of Communist sympathies.

UFA films monopolized Mexican markets until recently because American companies refused to pay the high tariffs imposed on American pictures. This situation, however, has been straightened out.