The official Nazi Party organ of the Cologne district today warned that the dismissal of three pro-Nazi magistrates in the Belgian town of Eupen might have grave repercussions on relations between Belgium and the Reich.
After pointing out the three magistrates had been removed from their posts for refusing to attend a reception in honor of the Belgian Interior Minister, the Nazi organ West-deutscher Beobachter denounced the “caricatural” 1919 plebiscite which severed Eupen and Malmedy from Germany and gave them to Belgium.
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