State Department circles today expressed the belief that the vague charges made in Berlin that the Jews were behind last night’s bomb explosion in Munich were preposterous. It was pointed out that it would have been impossible for a Jew to enter the Munich beer hall or even approach it, much less to place a bomb in the attic over Chancellor Hitler’s head.
Official Washington seethed with reports that the attempt on Hitler’s life was plotted by a group of renegade Nazis, and possibly by one of the top 20 of the Fuehrer’s regime. Officials pointed out that only a few of the men in Hitler’s confidence knew of his plan to speak in the beer hall for any appreciable time. The general German public did not know he planned to speak until an hour before the speech began.
Some quarters were inclined to believe that the assassination may have been plotted by friends of Captain Ernest Roehm who had been sworn to avenge Roehm’s death in Hitler’s purge of June, 1934.
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