Advices from Berlin said today that neutral observers there had been told by Nazis that the authorities do not intend temporarily to apply to Reich Jews the same “rigorous treatment” being used by the Nazi administration in Poland. “For the time being,” the Nazis are quoted as declaring, “we have more important matters to attend to than go after the Jews within the old Reich.”
The same observers report that German press reports about the inhuman treatment of Jews in Poland and other Nazi-occupied areas has stimulated great sympathy for the Jews among the German population. The older Germans, they declare, are quietly displaying pity for the Jews, although they are hardly able to be of any assistance to them in view of their own difficult position.
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