In the wake of Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic address in the Sportspalast here last night, a wave of new restrictions upon Jews was reported from many parts of the country.
In Kleinmachow, the district council decided not to allow “non-Aryans” to settle or cultivate plots of land.
The district leader of the Nazi Party in Mindelheim, Herr Schug, ordered the Woeringshofen spa not to issue admittance cards to Jews. Jews already undergoing the cure were ordered to leave forthwith.
In Hanover, Storm Troopers held a demonstration against Jewish ownership of cinema houses, claiming that as an important cultural enterprise, the cinema should be free of “non-Aryan” influences. Four Jewish-owned cinema houses were closed down.
In Oldenburg, Jewish traders were informed that they will hereafter be barred from the local meat-market on market days. This is the first large market in Germany to take such a step.
In Dortmund, the Mayor ordered that Jews no longer be permitted to pawn articles at the city pawnshop and that they are to be barred from bidding for merchandise at auctions. Steps were also taken to prevent intermediaries from acting for Jews.
Hans Hinkel, Nazi commissar for “non-Aryan” culture, has ordered the Tobis Klang Film Syndicate, one of the most important talking picture companies in Germany, to contract for music rights only with “culturally reliable” music firms in order to eliminate “non-Aryan” composers.
The address of Streicher, German apostle of anti-Semitism, brought to a new pitch of intensity the anti-Jewish drive in Berlin. About 50,000 persons jammed the Sportspalast and surrounding areas to hear Streicher attack the Jews.
Meanwhile, all over the city Jews kept indoors fearing the relentless anti-Semitic drive they expected to follow the address. Jewish organizations warned Jews to remain at home and keep themselves as inconspicuous as possible.
On one hand deploring violence, Streicher on the other hand boastingly admitted partial responsibility for the recent riots on the Kurfuerstendamm.
“I willingly admit that I am partially responsible for the small scene that took place on the Kurfuerstendamm,” he declared, “but as far as I know, not a single Jew died.
“I declare that I am glad to be accused of being an accomplice to the slight cleanup.”
Streicher regaled his audience with obscenities and pornographic stories.
He denounced priests who marry Jews to “Aryans” and interpreted the Old Testament, drawing an analogy between Hitler’s crusade against the Jews and Jesus Christ.
In his two-and-a-half hour speech, Streicher retold the entire cruxifixion story with a Nazi interpretation.
He charged that Foreign Minister Rathenau (Streicher called him chancellor) with other Jews got hold of Germany after the war when German peoples’ savings were melted away by the war.
He bitterly attacked the foreign press for “spreading lies” about Germany.
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