The printer of the Christian Socialist newspaper, Wegweiser, was arrested today on suspicion of having printed a leaflet widely distributed throughout Vienna exhorting Jews to buy only from their co-religionists.
The arrest followed the demand of the Jewish Community for a police investigation into the origin of the circular, which bore a six-pointed Jewish star and said: “Jews buy only from their co-religionists.”
The community denied in a statement that the leaflet had been issued from any Jewish source, and Jewish traders expressed alarm, seeing in the leaflet an attempt to mislead Gentiles into boycotting Jews.
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