Police today prohibited the circulation of the current issue of Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic weekly, Der Stuermer, and confiscated all the copies they could find. The prohibition was based on the fact that the Stuermer misrepresented a sadistic, sexual murder, which occurred in Breslau many years ago, rewriting the story under the caption, “Ritual murder in Breslau.” Police officials termed the Stuermer story “nonsense.”
Breslau, under the late Edmund Heines, who was executed in the purge of June 30, was the scene of violent excesses against the Jews. Heines, a convicted murderer, was made police chief of Breslau and head of the Silesian Nazis when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor.
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