A renewal of violent anti-Semitic agitation in the Voelkische Beobachter, Adolf Hitler’s newspaper, and in Der Angriff, the Goebbels publication, has been resumed contrary to the recent more moderate tactics employed by the Nazis in connection with the Jewish question. This has occasioned great surprise since both of the newspapers are virtually the official organs of the government.
The Voelkische Beobachter, in a special article, features the anti-Semitic opinions of Bismarck, von Moltke, Goethe, Wagner and Schopenhauer in order to show how Germany’s illustrious men have always condemned the Jews. This feature appears only in the Munich issue of the paper which is not intended for consumption abroad.
Der Angriff alleges that the Nazis are not alone in their hatred of the Jew. The Social Democrats, the paper charges, dispised the Jews and only tolerated the Jewish workers in their ranks because of their fear of foreign criticism.
While the Nazi press in general is no longer agitating against the Jews on the score of alleged spreading of atrocity tales abroad, it is concentrating on the gospel of race purification and lets no day pass without injecting remarks to the effect that Jewish blood must be eliminated from German veins.
This continual agitation to keep the Jew isolated has resulted in a strengthening of the Jewish boycott. Germans are afraid to meet Jewish friends or to buy from Jews through fear of being denounced as being themselves of Jewish origin.
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