The Nazi press launched a concerted campaign today against what it termed “white Jews” — “Aryan” manufacturers and merchants who exploit German consumers and people or who try to profit individually by the business “Aryanization” now underway.
Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s blackshirted Elite Guard, in a leading editorial said that these “white Jews” are related by spirit and method, if not by race, to “black Jews” – i.e., members of the Jewish race. “We plan amicably to remove all power to harm of these white Jews and the moment has come to begin work,” said Das Schwarze Korps.
The National Zeitung of Essen, regarded as mouthpiece of Marshal Hermann Goering, four-year-plan director, reported that “draconian measures” have been taken against so-called “white Jews” in Vienna who arbitrarily raised prices. “Prices in a whole series of cases showed increases of more half as compared with the previous year,” the newspaper said.
During the last three months in Vienna, the National Zeitung added, the price survey office studied 3,000 cases, ordered 23 stores closed and imposed fines totalling 45,000 marks ($18,000).
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