A queer story of how three Hitlerite journalists from Berlin regaled themselves with gefilte fish and Kol Nidre at a Jewish bar here is recounted in today’s Haint, local Yiddish daily.
Dr. Hjalmer Fusch, co-editor of the Berlin Angriff; an editor of Der Deutsche, organ of the German Labor Front, and one of the editors of the Munich Neue#te Nachrichten came here as guests of the Polish government, along with several other German journalists.
Strolling through the streets, the three came upon the “Metropole,” a Jewish restaurant. They entered and ordered gefilte fish, whiskey and Kol Nidre, paying the orchestra leader repeatedly to play the prayer over again.
“I’m very fond of this wonderful Russian Melody, Kol Nidre,” one of the guests said to the conductor.
“Everything is very nice here,” ### rest chimed in as they left. “Auf Wiedersehn!”
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