Five Jews who had been reinstated as attorneys, were forcibly dragged out of the courthouse at Duisberg when an organized mob invaded the building to demonstrate against the readmission of the Jews to the bar, it was learned today. Other Jews in the building were compelled to escape through the basement after an unsuccessful attempt to hide in the court.
The demonstration was started on the Koenigstrasse, which the building faces, when it was learned that Jewish lawyers would make their first appearance since their reinstatement. The Jewish attorneys, Levy, Simon, Kaufman, Katzenstein and Loewenberg, were chased through the building. Order was restored only after they had all left.
The Duisberger National Zeitung, reporting this occurrence comments, “This proves that the German nation is unwilling to give up the achievements of the national revolution.”
The order of the Prussian Minister of Justice for the reinstatement of Jewish attorneys in Upper Silesia has provoked dissatisfaction, a proclamation of Nazi leaders in the Gleiwitz Deutsche Ostfront states. It declares that the League of Nations effort to hinder the elimination of foreign race influence in Upper Silesia is bound to remain an insignificant gesture provided the nationally conscious German population acts in voluntary discipline not to use Jewish lawyers. This, it says, no one can prevent.
The proclamation indicates that the list of those patronizing Jewish lawyers will be compiled, and declares that it is a duty to hinder Jewish lawyers and judges in the exercise of their profession. The proclamation warns against sabotage of the process of cleansing German justice.
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