Attention has been given here to a sensational story published in the “Toronto Daily Star” of February 23, in the form of a cable from its Berlin correspondent, to the effect that a group of bankers, described as Jewish and named as Baron von Schroeder, Louis Hagen, and Salomon Oppenheim, had put fifty million marks at the disposal of Hitler. The correspondent stated that the money was advanced on the condition that Hitler and Von Papen agreed to collaborate in bringing about the fall of von Schleicher.
It is curious that without going into any of the other details of the story, none of the persons mentioned is Jewish. Neither Baron von Schroeder nor his firm is Jewish or of Jewish origin; Louis Hagen was dead when the supposed deal was effected, while Salomon Oppenheim, despite his name, is not a Jew.
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