Indications of an open difference of opinion among Nazi leaders regarding the treatment of Jews in German economic life were seen here today in an article in today’s Voelkischer Beobachter in which State Secretary Gottfried Feder, a leading Nazi expert and Vice-Minister of Economics, demanded the complete Aryanization of German commerce and a more revolutionary economic policy.
The demand, made on the occasion of the beginning of the second year of the Nazi rule, is directly opposed to the policy which Kurt Schmitt, Nazi Minister of Economics, has been making an effort to introduce. Schmitt’s policy provides for some alleviation of anti-Jewish pressure in commerce.
Feder, in his article in the Beobachter demands that the Nazi program in all its twenty-five points be carried out in full and the exclusion of everything non-German in the economic life of the country.
Another article in the Beobachter stresses the racial spirit in economics, declaring that the racial spirit should be the predominant factor in economics and that liberalism must disappear completely from that field.
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