There is nothing on which any objection can be raised in the Jewish Land Settlement at Gross Gaglow, near Berlin, where the Jewish Land Settlement Federation in Germany formed under the auspices of the Union of Jewish Ex-Soldiers in Germany, has started a Jewish agricultural settlement, the Minister of Agriculture in Erussia, Dr. Steiger, declared in the Prussian Diet today, in reply to the interpellation put last week by one of the Hitlerist Deputies, Deputy Wilhelm Kuber, who wanted to know how the Government could justify its action in providing land for settlement at Gross Gaglow, “to aliens”, at a time “when the land of German peasants is being put up to auction by the tax authorities because they have no money to pay their taxes.”
Ex-Captain Loewenstein, the President of the Union of Jewish Ex-Soldiers in Germany, speaking at the inauguration of the settlement, which took place at the end of June, said that the achievements of German Jews in all branches of German cultural activities, and not least the fact that 12,000 Jewish soldiers had laid down their lives in defence of the German Fatherland, gave the German Jews the right to settle on the soil which they had guarded with their lives against the foe during the War.
The District Chief of the Gross Gaglow District, Dr. Eisler, also speaking at the gathering, said that the local authorities could view the scheme only with favour and do everything possible to promote it. The sparsely populated district was still capable, he said, of absorbing agricultural settlers, and could develop into a big centre for supplying market produce for the whole of Greater Berlin.
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