With the chances of the Nazis to obtain control of the government through a coalition with the Centre Party diminishing and the dissolution of the Reichstag impending, Nazi leaders are seeking to allay the wrath of their followers by blaming the Jews for the political situation which has developed and for the failure of the Nazi aspirations.
The lull in the anti-Semitic agitation of the Nazis, apparent during the period when the Nazi hope of obtaining government control was strong, has now been replaced by a renewed and open incitement led by Adolph Hitler himself.
In a speech delivered by the Nazi chieftain last night in Munich at a mass meeting in the Kronen Zirkus, he charged that Jacob Goldschmidt, prominent German Jewish banker, had united with Chancellor Franz von Papen to prevent the Nazis from coming into power.
“The Jews and the feudal Herren Club,” he asserted, “think they can save Germany.
“The threatened Jews have always found the nobility their protecting lords,” Hitler mockingly declared.
“We won’t let you keep power, not if you dissolve the Reichstag ten times. These old excellencies won’t discourage us,” he challenged.
Today’s “Voelkischer Beobachter,” in a front page article heralded by bold streamer headlines asserts: “World Jewry has ordered the prevention of a Nazi government. Jewish High Finance has created an international front against Hitler.”
The Jews, the Nazi organ asserts, who are the Nazis deadliest enemies, are manipulating to prevent a Nazi government.
The paper quotes an interview, supposedly published in the Brussels paper, “Le Soir,” with Dr. George Kareski, former head of the Berlin Jewish Community, who attended the world Jewish conference in Geneva, wherein the latter allegedly declared that the Jewish conference created a united Jewish front with the assistance of friendly Christians for the purpose of frustrating the possibility of a Nazi government.
The interview with Dr. Kareski, comments the paper, proves the manipulations of world Jewry to prevent a legal approach to power on the part of Hitler.
The latest developments in Germany, it adds, show how successful such Jewish intervention can become.
The renewed Nazi agitation is causing anxiety in Jewish circles where it is feared lest the Nazis make the Jews the scapegoats for their shattered hopes.
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