The economic difficulties besetting Nazi Germany due to the boycott of German goods abroad have led Jewish leaders here to issue a statement emphasizing that the Jews abroad are not as active in the anti-German boycott as many Nazis in Germany think.
“The mass of German Jews active in economic life have just as great an interest in the development of Germany’s foreign trade and export as all other merchants working in exporting branches,” the statement says.
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This declaration, published in the Central Verein Zeitung, the official organ of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, emphasizes that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the economic dictator of Germany, has in the last two years repeatedly stressed the importance of export to the economic development of Germany.
“The German Jews, who are inseparably bound up with German economic life, are well aware of the importance of these questions. Jewish exporters have during the past two years devoted all efforts to the development of Germany’s export trading,” the article in the C-V-Zeitung declares.
“The fact that the Jews outside of Germany are also very far from making difficulties for German exports is shown clearly by the development of German exports to Palestine. Germany is now holding third place among the imports of Palestine,” the statement points out.
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