While anti-Jewish agitation was soft-pedaled during the campaign preceding yesterday’s elections, the balloting took on an anti-Jewish tinge when posters were displayed outside polling places and in workingmen’s quarters declaring, “Jewish anti-German propaganda prevents the attainment of peace.”
In the provinces, men were employed to carry sandwich signs bearing similar slogans.
“Hello! here is the world’s Jew-baiter Number 1,” was the salutation of Julius Streicher, anti-Semitic propagandist, when he broadcast greetings to the new Zeppelin, Hindenburg, as it circled over Nuremberg just before the elections began.
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