A new country-wide anti-Jewish boycott was proclaimed today by the Nazi Trade and Artisans Association, similar to the one carried out by the Nazis on April 1 of last year. The new boycott campaign against the German Jews will begin on March 23 and will continue uninterruptedly until April 7.
With their customary flair for propaganda, the Nazis plan to open the boycott campaign with street processions of Nazi organizations, poster displays, movie shorts, radio talks, trucks with loud speakers, and pickets, who will be posted outside the Jewish stores to prevent customers from entering.
During these two weeks, every German store and every German artisan will be compelled to hang on buildings and on windows signs urging the boycott of the Jews.
The Nazi boycott leaders have declared that German artisans or store keepers who fail to hang out boycott signs will be considered “sabotageurs or Jews.”
At the same time, a questionnaire will be sent to millions of housewives in every section of Germany asking them why they still patronize Jewish stores.
FULL BOYCOTT REPORTS ORDERED
Nazi officials all over Germany have been ordered to submit a full report on the results of the anti-Jewish boycott, the reports to be submitted by April 27 at the latest.
Jewish firms have already been forbidden by Nazi officials to advertise their wares for the Easter trade. German Jews are seriously alarmed by the new campaign against them and are apprehensive of their future.
The Nazi Trade Association today sent a questionnaire to all commercial firms in the country asking them to answer the following questions:
1. Is Jewish capital invested in their firms?
2. To what extent?
3. To what extent are they indebted to Jews?
4. How much are they buying from Jews?
5. How much are they selling to Jews?
The Nazi boycott of the German Jews carried out last April 1 lasted for only one day. All the resources of the powerful Nazi party, the only political party left in Germany, were mobilized to make the boycott effective throughout Germany. The Nazi claimed at the time that this was their answer to Jewish protests all over the world on the treatment of the German Jews and the boycott of German goods proclaimed by Jewish organization, liberals and labor organizations.
INCREASE IN PROPAGANDA
Since the boycott of last April, the Nazi regime has made some concessions to the Jews, but every concession by the Nazi cabinet has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in {SPAN}##{/SPAN} Jewish propaganda and activities of the Nazi party itself, which is directed from the Munich Brown House, and which has one department devoted to the boycott against the Jews.
The fact that the new boycott against the Jews is organized by the Nazi Trade and Artisans’ Association, rather than by the Nazi party itself, is of no importance, since all the powerful commercial and industrial organizations are Nazi-controlled and Nazi-directed.
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