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Reich Urged to Seize Jews’ Land

May 29, 1935
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A project to confiscate all real estate held by Jews in Germany is advanced today in the Juedenkenner, the anti-Semitic weekly in Berlin which emulates Julius Streicher’s publication, Der Stuermer.

The paper puts forward an elaborate plan to oust all Jewish landholders from Berlin and to concentrate them in purely Jewish districts. The dispossessed Jewish landlords should be given land in the province of Brandenburg, instead of money as compensation, the paper recommends.

WOULD SEIZE SYNAGOGUES

The synagogues of Berlin would be taken over by the municipality, according to the paper’s project and could be converted into mu Berlin and Confiscation Jewish Pro Check Up On Deck seums or used for other public purposes.

“Berlin, the ‘Aryan’ capital of the world, would once more become a German city worthy of the new Reich, if all the Jews were transplanted from the city into a new pale,” the paper says.

The performance of “The Song of Songs” by a Jewish choir and orchestra was prohibited last night by the secret political police. The official reason given was that tickets for the concert were sold to non-Jews in violation of the regula-

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