Everything that was written in reputable newspapers in America about conditions in Germany, affecting the treatment of Jews in that country, is true, Rev. Donald M. C. Englert, of Allentown, a Lutheran minister, who returned here yesterday from a year’s stay in Germany, declared in an interview.
Rev. Englert, who was in Germany on a Princeton Alumni Fellowship in New Testament scholarship, and who was accompanied by his wife, spent a short vacation in Italy during the period when Hitler came into power. He returned to Germany shortly after the persecution of Jews had begun.
“Our stay in Marburg brought us up-to-date with German events very quickly. Then it was just a question of keeping quiet, of writing nothing at all in our letters home, since our letters were being opened, and of waiting until we were safely out of Germany before discussing what was going on in that country. It suffices to say that everything that was written in the reputable newspapers in America about conditions in Germany was true,” he declared.
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