Lack of textiles to manufacture yellow Mogen Davids has caused postponement of the decree, scheduled to go into effect this week, providing that Jews of Germany, the Czech Protectorate and annexed Poland wear yellow badges the size of their hand, it was learned today by Polish circles here.
The German people are still ignorant of the yellow badge order as the general press in Germany has not carried it. Only the Reichsblatt, the official gazette, which is not seen by most of the population, published the decree.
Increased anti-Jewish activity in Germany was reported here today with public buildings being placarded with salient quotations from Theodore Kaufman’s “Germany Must Perish,” advocating mass sterilization of Germans.
In the city of Breslau Jews are systematically being expelled from the town, in accordance with promises made by the local Nazi leaders that the city would be “Judenrein by October. The evicted Jews are being herded into disused barracks outside the city.
House-to-house raids on Jewish homes in Berlin continue with Gestapo agents hunting for traces of forbidden food in kitchens and cooking utensils.
Execution of a Jewish hostage each time an “anti-Nazi atrocity story” appears in the American or English press is suggested as a means of checking anti-German propaganda, by Der Stuermer, the notorious anti-Semitic weekly.
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