The police authorities of Breslau have issued a communique minimising the disturbances in Breslau and denying that they were in the nature of a pogrom, describing them instead as attacks made by Nazis on people belonging to the Parties of the Left.
The Socialist organ “Vorwaerts” in reporting the Breslau events states that the Nazis organised a hunt against their opponents. People of Jewish appearance and people wearing Republican symbols were knocked down. A crowd of Nazis demonstrated outside the offices of the Republican Reichsbanner organisation, shouting “Slaves of the Jews!”, “Traitors to the workers!”, “Murderers!”.
Prominent Jews in Breslau, to whom the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here telephoned, stated that they were not in a position to make any statement on the events. In street tumults of such a nature, they said, it was not easy to see how far they were of an antisemitic character.
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