The first passenger to land in Palestine from the first Jewish-owned steamer, the Tel Aviv, which entered a Palestine port for the first time yesterday, bearing the first blue-white Jewish flag, was a Nazi correspondent sent to Palestine by the Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler’s official organ.
The name of the correspondent is Dr. Martini. He was previously connected with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the leading Berlin dailies which suspended publication recently.
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