Nazis Riot in Wiesbaden; Jewish Shops Attacked

The widespread anti-Jewish boycott campaign now in full swing in Germany today led to minor riots in Wiesbaden where crowds of Nazis forced Jewish shops to remove Easter decorations from their windows and prevented Jews from selling Easter Communion clothes.

The incident was immediately utilized by the Wiesbaden leader of the Hago, Nazi organization against Jews in trade as an excuse to issue a proclamation exhorting the people not to riot against the Jews. He declared that he had stopped the Easter tricks of the Jewish shops by distributing to every “German shop” signs to place in their windows showing that their stores were owned by “Aryans.”

A circular was issued to all the members of the Nazi party in Franconia asking them to sign the following declaration:

“On my word of honor in the future I will never do any business whatsoever with Jew, Jewish assistants or Jewish intermediaries. I will never enter a Jewish shop and I will repulse every Jew who enters my house. I will never consult Jewish doctors under any circumstances, and I will prevent my friends and relatives from seeing Jews.”

VIOLATORS PUNISHED

Each member of the Nazi party was instructed to conclude his statement with a declaration that he recognizes that if he violates or circumvents the statement, immediate expulsion from the party would follow. The last sentence of the declaration reads, “I may be declared a traitor verbally or in writing and called a breaker of a word of honor or a scoundrel if I violate or circumvent the declaration I signed.”

A Nuremberg councillor who today spoke at a meeting of local butchers declared that he had demanded that the municipality divide the meat market into “Aryan” and Jewish sections in order to prevent “‘Aryans’ from buying from Jews.” He said that this would put an end to the present condition in Nuremberg, where 65 per cent of the Nuremberg meat trade was in the hands of the Jews.

In the state of Brunswick local newspapers carry detailed descriptions of the wives of officials who dare to buy in Jewish shops, branding them as “traitors to the German people.”

The anti-Jewish boycott was originally proclaimed by the Nazi Trade and Artisans Association to begin on March 22 and to last until April 7. But surveys in a number of German cities showed that the boycott is already in full swing with all the force of the powerful Nazi machine behind the movement.