Numerous anti-Jewish acts occurred today throughout Germany, indicating that the Nazi groups throughout the country have taken matters in their own hands, even before the time officially fixed for the opening of the boycott against Jews.
At Frankfurt, the Nazi Commissioner of the city ordered the dismissal of all Jewish employees of the Municipality immediately on the expiration of their contracts.
At Goerlitz several Jews were taken into “protective custody”, a euphemism for arrest. At Goettingham, nearly all the windows of Jewish shops were smashed. The same thing happened at Dortmund, where, in addition, Jewish lawyers, dentists, doctors, and businessmen, were put under arrest. At Munster and Stettin, the boycott is already practically complete. At Wernigerode, Nazi groups pasted posters over Jewish shops with the inscription “Closed Until World Jewry Stops War Against Germany”.
In the Rhenish Palatinate, the Commissioner has publicly prohibited Nazis from buying at Jewish shops, declaring that the husbands of Nazi women caught buying in Jewish shops would be expelled from the Party.
An official appeal has been issued calling on the public to refrain from smashing the windows of Jewish shops, as such action did not hurt Jews, but only harmed the insurance companies who were called upon to pay for the damage.
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