Newsstands in railway depots and on main streets of Berlin received large supplies of newly-published anti-Semitic books today with orders to display them conspicuously with the avowed aim of converting visitors to the Olympic games into Nazi propagandists.
Newspapers reported that Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, author of the Nuremberg race and citizenship laws, was preparing new laws to be enacted after the Olympics fixing the status of children of mixed marriages in connection with admission to schools, labor camps and the army.
Wilhelm Frick, Minister of Interior, published an order permitting revocation of licenses of physicians found “unreliable from the national standpoint.” This was regarded as opening the door to cancellation of Jewish dictators’ licenses.
With the Olympic games in Berlin only a month off, anti-Jewish propaganda was widely resumed today.
Der Angriff, Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ newspaper featured an article against the Jews. It also attacked Pope Pius for criticizing Nazi racial laws.
Fuehrer Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter lists anti-Semitic books and recommended them to their readers.
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