National Socialist leanders and their cohorts today paid tribute to Chancellor Hitler on the fourteenth anniversary of the proclamation of the party’s tenets. The natin’s was dead were memorialized in a celebration which had as its highlight a pledge of personal loyaty to the Nazi leader.
The Jewish Soldier’s Union, whose membership comprises war vaternans, avowed its allegiance to the German nation in a statement which asked citizenship rights in the name ofr comrades who died in action.
“This day we declaree ourselves for the German nation. We would be unvorthy of our dead Jewish comrades if we accepted exclusion from the German community as deserved. On this day we Jewish Germans commemorate all the war dead, and when the German war dead are being memborialized, it should be remembered that 12,000 of them were Jews. These 12,000 Jews died for Gernment. We, their comrades, demand Ger- (countinued on Page Eight)
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