“Every Bluecherbund member should pray to God before going to sleep every night to lend him the power to exterminate a few Jews,” is the advice given in a brochure published by Dozen Ruge, Bluecherbund leader at the University here. The “prayer” is quoted by the Forwaerts in connection with the attack against a Catholic priest, at the meeting of the National Socialists, in the presence of Hitler.
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