“Show no mercy to Jews in carrying out the new state employment law!” Reichs Governor Jakob Sprenger told 50,000 Nazis in a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace here today.
Each German employee in the future must consider himself a “civil soldier in the German army,” he declared. The Jewish element must therefore be eliminated without consideration for personal feelings, he said, in the interest of the new German state.
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