Affirmation that the reports regarding German atrocities published abroad are not exaggerated is provided today by a London doctor, Hertzberg, who has just returned from a tour of Germany. Dr. Hertzberg declared that he himself witnessed the Jewish boycott raging there, the smashing of Jewish windows, and the obstruction of Jewish shops practiced by Nazi pickets. He describes how the authorities on the one hand requested the re-opening of the shops, while the Nazi hooligans on the other carried on boycott agitation outside, leaving the Jews perplexed as to whose orders were to be obeyed.
He also describes the tearing of Jewish beards, and the burning of their hair, as features of Nazi cruelty. He declares that the German newspaper reports are altogether unreliable because the rigorous official censorship suppresses anything that might tend to confirm the gravity of the situation. Moreover, regarding the economic boycott, he says, that during the last few days this has become even more intense, although the actual violence outside the Jewish stores is diminishing. He says that even members of the Government are joining in the campaign, giving voice to utterances which amount to orders not to buy from Jews.
Apart from the report of Dr. Hertzberg, importance is attached to a letter received here privately from Amsterdam, describing the situation of the German Jews as worse than that of animals. The letter details the attack on a synagogue on Friday March 11, and the subsequent Nazi threats which made it impossible to open the synagogue for Saturday worship, as well as on the following day, which happened to be Purim.
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