Hundreds of Jews today turned frantically to the Netherlands and other consulates for information on the alleged attempts against Reich diplomatic representatives in Holland. Although none of the consulates apparently knew of the reported shooting except from the Reich press, German Jewry was suffering from acute panic, recalling the wave of anti-Jewish excesses and the $400,000,000 “fine” that followed the fatal wounding of Ernst vom Rath, German Embassy official in Paris, on Nov. 7 by a Polish Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan.
The Jews’ fears were not allayed by the memory of a recent warning in Das Schwarze Korps, organ of the Gestapo and Hitler’s elite guards, that “the day a Jewish or Jewish-bought weapon is employed against a German, there will be no more Jews in Germany.”
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