Alleged presentation of a film entitled “Christian Martyrs in Germany Today,” in a church in New York City caused the controlled Nazi press here today to turn its wrath once more against that American metropolis, the Havas News Agency reported.
The film was said here to be propaganda directed against the Third Reich. Particular indignation was expressed at the fact that its showing was prefaced by an “anti-German speech” by Erika Mann, daughter of the exiled German novelist Thomas Mann and wife of W.H. Auden, British poet who is understood to be serving with the Spanish Loyalists.
A sound film entitled “Modern Christian German Martyrs,” had its premiere Monday night at the Riverside Church under the auspices of the American Committee for Christian German Refugees, which is conducting a nationwide campaign for $400,000 to aid fugitives from Nazi persecution. The picture will be distributed to cities throughout the country wherever local sponsoring committees can be formed.
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