Under the heading, “Hitler Wins,” the current issue of “The Nation” publishes an estimate of the probable effect of the Nazi victory both on the Nazi movement and on Germany as a whole. Referring to Jewish prospects under the new regime, it says. “As for the Jews, they are profoundly to be pitied. Hitler may not actually resort to pogroms, as he and his men have promised that they would; he has yet to make good his boast that when he took office ‘heads would roll in the sand.’ But in the months, and perhaps the years, to come the Jews will live as marked persons, fearing the loss of their citizenship—also decreed by the Hitler platform—and facing persecution, prejudice, and personal violence. Leave Germany they cannot, unless permission is given to them by the government—even Switzerland has just increased its frontier guards to prevent those in terror of the Nazis from seeking that historic asylum which was so readily and happily granted to the revolutionists of 1848.”
Discussing the duration of the Nazi control, “The Nation” sees hope mainly in Hitler’s eventual failure to realize the promises which have brought him into the saddle.
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