A warning that Christian women patronizing Jewish shops will be treated by the storm troopers “like dishonorable women who in wartime were friendly with the Belgian soldiers,” was issued by the storm troops commander Aigeltinger in the form of an advertisement in the Krefelder General Anzeiger. The Nazi leader asserted that he has the names of the Christian women who have been counteracting the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott by patronizing Jewish merchants.
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