Physical violence against the Jews in Germany was urged last night by Julius Streicher, overlord of Franconia, addressing the students of the Erlangen University.
“It is impossible to fight the enemies of Germany with spiritual weapons only. The Nazi regime could not exist if the National Socialist Party pursued such a policy,” Herr Streicher said.
Warning that “Germany may perish” if no violent measures are taken against the Jews, Herr Streicher advised the students to refrain from mixing with Jews “because they have passed a death sentence against Germany.”
“We must destroy this devil among nations,” the notorious anti-Semite concluded.
The Jews in Germany must bear the consequences of their defeat in the same way the entire German nation did “through all those terrible years up to 1933,” Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler’s right-hand man, declared today in an article in the National Zeitung, Goering’s publication in Essen.
“The Jews have not been entirely eliminated,” Rosenberg writes, “but they have been pushed back so that there is no longer any danger to the cultural formation of Germany.”
“Unfortunately,” Herr Rosenberg continues, “there are many among whom the so-called humanitarian ideas are again beginning to stir. They do not realize that the problem of the Jew in Germany is not one of persons but one of principle. All Jews must as one man bear the consequences of Jewry’s criminal activity, its abuse of all that was spiritual, great, and noble in Germany.”
WARNS OF ‘NEW EFFORTS’
Herr Rosenberg declares that new efforts are being made lately “not by Jews directly but by people disguised under pseudonyms and even by Germans whose instincts are not quite definite,” to re-admit Jews into Germany’s cultural life.
“Old friends are being used for is purpose,” Herr Rosenberg ##tes. “Personal connections, ar###ic and scientific associations,
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