The German government today issued a communique officially denying that Chancellor Franz von Papen had consulted Jacob Goldschmidt, prominent German Jewish banker, on the government’s economic recovery program.
The government communique was issued in reply to a charge made last night by Paul Joseph Goebbels, head of the Nazi party in Berlin, at a Nazi mass meeting in the Sportspalast that Jacob Goldschmidt had been consulted by the Chancellor immediately after Hitler’s interview with President Paul von Hindenburg where the former was refused the Chancellorship.
In an effort to arouse the workers against the Jews, Goebbels further asserted that Chancellor von Papen also consulted Herr Goldschmidt on abolishing trade unions and workers unions.
In Jewish circles, the allegation of Goebbels is seen as additional proof that the Nazis are attempting to give a Jewish coloring to the differences between themselves and Chancellor von Papen and to couple with their attacks upon the government incitement against the Jews.
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