Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith issued a statement today in answer to the police search of its premises yesterday in connection with the firing of the Reichstag chamber.
Disavowing Communist sympathies affiliations, the Central Union decal### “As the representatives of Ge### Jewry we combat anti-Semitism o### and legally. The Central Union ###ciple of promoting patriotic feel### and protecting the Jewish religion r###ders impossible any connection with Communist aims.
“We reject emphatically any allegation concerning our connection with enemies of the State and the anti-religious movement,” the statement asserts.
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