The effect of Hitler’s call for discipline is beginning to wear off. For several days after the publication of Hitler’s communique, violence subsided somewhat in Berlin, although there were sporadic outbreaks in the provinces.
Nazis yesterday attacked the Berlin slaughter-yard, maltreating a number of Schochtem, and injuring one. There have also been a number of individual attacks in the Jewish quarter of the Grenadierstrasse. Individual Jews have been attacked, and these assaults are continuing.
Unknown persons entered a synagogue in the Grenadierstrasse and terrorized the worshippers. It was only the timely arrival of the police that saved the worshippers from violence.
In parts of the provinces, Nazi violence is of a more serious character, if only because the police are rather unwilling, or unable to interfere. At Munich, the venerable Rabbi Baerwald was pulled out of bed at night by unknown persons. He was dragged from the house and taken out into the street, where he was placed against a wall by hooligans, who pointed rifles at him. The aged rabbi believed that his end had come, when the leader ordered the others to fire. However, the hooligans, instead of firing, burst out laughing. They then disappeared, leaving the rabbi, who had collapsed, unconscious on the street.
The London press continues today to devote space to details of Nazi violence. The “Daily Telegraph” reports that seven Frankfurt Jews were called upon to come to the Nazi headquarters. They communicated with the Frankfurt police, and asked what they should do in the circumstances. The police, thereupon, replied it would be advisable for them to go rather than refrain. Upon their arrival at the Nazi headquarters, the Jews, who included fathers and sons, were under threats of death, compelled to flog one another until several of them fell unconscious.
The London “Morning Post” observes that Nazi violence which appeared to be dying down is again showing ominous signs of growing.
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