An orgy of buying food and clothing, for hording purposes, as a result of the fall of the Danzig currency, was utilized today by the Nazi authorities here to start a strong and open campaign against the Jews.
Anxious to divert the state of panic which the drop in Danzig currency provoked, Nazi officials made statements that the Jews are all to be blamed for the devaluation of the Danzig gulden.
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