Echoes of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht’s recent denunciation of “extra legal” acts against Jews began to make themselves heard in various parts of Germany today as Nazi district leaders made obvious gestures to check the most offensive features of the anti-Jewish campaign.
Thus, Gauleiter Sprenger speaking at Giessen, a town of 34,000 inhabitants, urged a peaceful solution of the Jewish question by “every German abstaining from business and social intercourse with the Jews.”
Gauleiter Telschaw, addressing the district leaders of Marburg and Wilhelmsburg, appealed for discipline, declaring that laws were being enacted to handle the Jewish problem.
At Fulda, the authorities issued a statement attacking “saboteurs” for allegedly interfering with Jewish trade last week and warning that the police have been instructed to jail all rowdies caught in extra legal activities against Jews irrespective of whether they possess Nazi party cards.
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