A wave of anti-Jewish outbreaks from terrorist attacks in the streets on individual Jews to what is described in the Berlin press to-day as a pogrom is sweeping through Germany.
In Berlin, the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith states in an official communique, a crowd of boys shouting “Kill the Jews” fell upon Jews walking in the Neue Koenigstrasse and the Joachimstrasse, inflicting injuries on them. One of the victims is a young employee of the Central Union.
At Alsfeld, in Hessen, a Jew was beaten in the street by Nazis.
In Forst a Jewish family, father, mother, and several sons, were attacked in the street and maltreated. Nazis in the same town attacked a Jewish butcher shop, smashing the windows, and a Jewish ex-soldier who was disabled in the war was knocked down in the street. Several other Jewish shops in Forst were attacked by Nazis.
Jews have also been beaten by Nazis in the streets of Essen and Oranienburg.
In Breslau a crowd of hundreds of Nazis wearing their uniform appeared in the street late last night and attacked everybody who seemed to them of Jewish appearance. Many Jews have been injured, one girl very seriously.
A panic broke out among the Jews of the city, especially when the Nazis proceeded in close formation to the Ohlauer Strasse, and began to demolish the Jewish shops and houses there. The police were unable to control the situation, and reinforcements had to be called up.
When the police reinforcements arrived they were received by the Nazis with a volley of stones, and they were compelled to shoot in the air to disperse the demonstrators. The Nazis afterwards reorganised, and assembled in force outside the police station, bombarding the building with stones.
The situation in Breslau remains tense, and Jews are afraid to go out in the streets.
Another two Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated, at Osterburg, in Bavaria, and at Penkum, in Pomerania. #any tombstones were smashed in both places, and others that were too heavy to be torn out were damaged. Several graves were also outraged.
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