The time-worn accusation that the Jews are to blame for Germany’s misfortunes was heard again at the night session of the Reichstag yesterday. Deputy Graefe, well-known anti-Semitic leader, insisted it was Jewish financial circles that ruled Germany and that Jewish profiteers were causing the starvation of the German people.
Deputy Graefe recently led an attack on restaurants, in the course of which numerous Jewish guests were assaulted.
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