News stories reaching America of the atrocities and barbarities in Germany are only tiny segments of the whole tragic story, according to Rabbi F. R. Reichert of Temple Emanu-El, who has just returned from an official visit to the land dominated by Hitlerism.
Rabbi Reichert so reported at a special meeting of his congregation called to hear his first-hand account of conditions in Germany as he found them.
He said that the Jewish people of Germany welcomed him — the second American Jew to visit that country — as the American ambassador of Israel.
“There is a veritable reign of terror,” he said, “for those not members of the National Socialist party, for at any time their homes may be raided, their property confiscated, their bodies imprisoned.
“Suspects are shadowed, telephones are tapped, letters are opened and cablegrams decoded by a country under severe censorship.”
Judge M. C. Sloss presided at the meeting.
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