Nazis Pay for Ballyhoo at $1 a ‘heil,’ Queens Teutons Opine

While the Deutsche Zeitung and other Nazi publicity mediums report that the residents of the German-American communities in the Borough of Queens are “flaming with the zeal and the crusading spirit of Nazism,” the residents themselves brand the statement as a lie.

The purported enthusiasm with which recent Nazi demonstrations have been received, they assert, has been purchased at a dollar a head.

They cite as an example a “monster Nazi Mass meeting” held in a College Point hall on the Queens North Shore a few days ago under the auspices of an organization known as the First Sport Club, a group of young, Germans none of whom, it is said, has been in this country for more than five years.

BONA-FIDE RESIDENTS ABSENT

Three life-long College Point residents stood near the line of march and watched the parade of between 200 and 250 persons which preceded the meeting. Not more than three bona-fide local residents were among the assemblage, they reported, and these were members of the so-called “sport club.”

The procession wound up at the hall, where three large buses unloaded a ready-made audience, whose faces bore an uncanny resemblance to those which face Nazi fire-eaters nightly in Yorkville, in Newark, in Ridgewood and in Maspeth.

With stern visaged, uniformed Nazis in attendance, the meeting proceeded with addresses-not by the leading German-American citizens of College Point or of Queens, but by Weiner Brink of Manhattan, William Meyer of Union City, N. J., and George Haselhorst of Detroit.

QUEENS IS SUSPICIOUS

The real residents of Queens are suspicious of all this racket. They do not suspect their Jewish neighbors and fellow business men of anything sinister, and they seek and appreciate their trade. They remain unimpressed by the clamor raised by the Spanknoebels and Weiner Brinks who have come among them and they are even slightly amused at the swashbuckling “swastickling” of these brash newcomers.