The Daily News Letter Herr Streicher and Nature

Berlin.

Herr Julius Streicher, the doughty Franconian and nature practitioner has found a new target for the virulence of his many prospering publications—the Jewish physicians permitted to retain panel practice by virtue of their war service records.

In addition to his Frankische Tageszeitung, a daily newspaper and Der Stuermer, the official anti-Semitic campaign spearhead, Herr Streicher publishes a magazine under the inspiring, if somewhat ponderous title—”German Health Through Blood and Soil.” This magazine is given over to so-called “scientific explanations of the inferiority of Jewish and other “non-Aryan” bloods, to revealing the hidden menace of serums discovered by Jews, as well as other modern medical methods and to exploit the “nature cure” system.

THE INSIDIOUS SERUMS

The magazine, in the past has solemnly informed its readers that serums were invented by the Jews and by tools of the Jews in order to inoculate the German people with the germs of many diseases, and its attacks on medicine have been so outrageous that even the Nazi medical organizations have had to protest to the authorities and seek, in vain, some muzzling of the Franconian fuehrer. For after all, while it may be serving an excellent purpose to warn the population against going to Jewish doctors for vaccinations, it doesn’t help at all to have the population advised at the same time that vaccinations are no good from any doctor.

But their complaints, thus far, have gone unheeded. And Herr Streicher continues to sing the glories of nature cures to an ever-widening public.

WOULD FIRE PANEL DOCTORS

Recently, Herr Streicher surveyed the Berlin scene and his magazine, outraged, reported that fifty per cent of the panel doctors in the capital are Jewish. Now the magazine is conducting a campaign for the immediate dismissal of these Jews despite the fact they are all exempt from the “Aryan” clause application by their war records. If there are not enough qualified “Aryan” physicians to replace them, the magazine cannily suggests, put nature practitioners in the posts.

“It is not easy to get the Jews out of Germany,” the magazine complains. “It has been possible to clear them out of public office, but there is no possibility of preventing them engaging in trade and industry unless no German ever buys anything from a Jew. Unfortunately, that seems a very remote possibility.”

“Nor is it possible to prevent the Jews practising in the liberal professions. It should be possible, however, to keep the Jews out of practice in the official Sick Funds, for this is a public matter and should be regulated in the same way as all other public offices.

“When we find that about fifty per cent of the Sick Fund doctors in Berlin are Jews,” it continues, “it means that half the panel patients in Berlin still allow themselves to be treated by Jewish doctors. We see two grave dangers in this: one political and other hygienic.

III EASILY SWAYED’

“The political danger is that hundreds of thousands of the Berlin poor regularly have contact with a Jew. They are ill and therefore, easily influenced, and the Jewish doctor is able behind closed doors to influence them politically. He can spread disaffection, he can instill Marxism, he can carry out international missions and implant spiritual poison in an unobtrusive manner.

“The danger to the health of the race is no less serious. It is not for purely material considerations that the Jewish doctors have selected gynecology, women’s diseases, children’s ailments and the like in which to specialize. Der Stuermer has long drawn attention to the violations of German women by Jewish doctors, and the blood which they take for specimens can be utilized for cabbalistic (sic!) purposes. There is also the Jewish invention of harmful methods of dealing with sexual diseases.

“All anthoritative bodies realize that Jewish doctors must not remain in panel practice. But they believe it is not possible to attain this aim because of the danger of leaving the population of the cities without adequate medical attention. That may be so. But there is a way of dealing with that difficulty. The doctors in private practice should be admitted to the sick funds. If there should still be a shortage, nature practitioners could be admitted to the panel institutions and then there would no longer be any shortage. Out with the Jews from medicine!”