Nazi Policy Disillusions Followers

The London Times today devoted two full columns to a dispatch from its Berlin correspondent reviewing in detail the persecution of the Jews in Germany during the year following the one-day boycott against the Jews last April.

The paper refers to the latest “spring offensive” for the support of the German retailers, static that although Nazi authority deny that there is any racial ##crimination involved, locally the campaign is understood to be aimed against the Jews.

The Times completely confirms the dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency describing the persecutions and pogroms against the Jews in Bavaria, under the leadership of Julius Streicher, Nazi overlord of Franconia, summarizing recent events in Aschaffenburg, Nuremberg and Gunzenhausen.

“Despite the differences between official and police local practice, it is obvious that the Nazi policy is directed toward eliminating the Jews from the public services and the professions and art, but permits them to carry on trade,” the Times declared.

“But if history has taught anything, it has taught that the Jews cannot be obliterated. For that matter it has also taught that the Jews cannot be restricted to a ghetto of trade, but that is a lesson which history is biding its time for repeating,” the Times said.

“In the meantime, the striking fact is that the Nazi state is faced with hard economic facts which may be seen best in the application of the ‘leader’ idea to Jews in business life. Attempts by local Nazi groups to rule that no Jew may be declared the ‘leader’ of the business he heads were defeated by orders from Minister of Economics Dr. Kurt Schmitt.

“This strange concept of Jewish ‘leaders’ in the second year of Nazi rule is bringing bitter disillusionment to the rank and file Nazis,” the Times stated, showing on another page photographs of a notice outside a German village proclaiming, “Jews Unwanted.”