Nazis Molest Jews Visiting Health Resorts

Jews who go to bathing places and to health resorts are never certain they will not suddenly be told to leave. Without previous warning, signs are placed in bathing places notifying Jewish guests that they are not desired there.

Minor disturbances recently have taken place in various spas which had not previously indicated that Jews were not desired. A correspondent of the Mitteldeutsche of Magdeburg tells of a series of incidents which took place in Neudorf in the Harz Mountains. Troops of Hitler Youth marched past a hotel where many Jews lived in protest against admission of Jews. The annoyances they caused the guests reached such proportions that once, when they marched past the hotel, a relative of the hotel owner, an “Aryan,” shouted after them, “You dogs!”

CHILDREN ANNOYED

At the same place, Jewish children who were bathing were molested, and children playing were driven away. Once, the paper reported, when the Hitler Youths tried to drive away the Jewish children, so great a conflict arose that an “Aryan” chauffeur and his wife had the temerity to protect the Jewish children.

In view of such unpleasant occurrences and in order to save Jews the insults with which such incidents are invariably accompanied, the Juedische Rundschau expresses the wide-spread Jewish desire for the government to decide which baths are to allow and which to prohibit the presence of Jews. Jews come, writes the Rundschau, make arrangements, and at the cost of much effort and money settle in a health resort. Then they are told that their presence is not desired. A definite decision would be preferable to such an uncertain situation.

ECONOMIC DRIVE

Efforts to eliminate Jews from business and industry are being made in various places in spite of the government’s often repeated declaration that Jewish traders will not be molested.

The publication of the official organization of German traveling salesmen, the “Handels-Pioniere,” has published a satirical story of a manufacturer who dared to deal with Jews. When a Jewish salesman came to his place, the manufacturer took him to a back room to give him a large order explaining that he was forced to receive him thus because certain people objected to trading with Jews. He, however, did not. The aim of the story, as the paper points out, is to tell “Aryans” not to have any dealings with Jews.

The Fraenkische Tageszeitung, too, has started a campaign against Jewish business by publishing the names and addresses of Jewish firms, with a note of all “Aryan” firms which deal with them. The paper further calls upon German customers not only not to buy in Jewish places, but to avoid entering a place which buys from Jewish agents or wholesalers.