Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment Goebbels’ newspaper, Der Angriff, sharply rebukes the Frankfurter Zeitung, one of Germany’s few remaining papers which retains some semblance of independence, for its recent attack on the anti-Semitism of Julius Streicher, and characterizes as “impudence” its warning to the Nazi party to soften the drive against the Jews.
“The attitude taken by the State, the party and economists is a matter for National Socialism and its leaders,” Schwarz-van Berk, Der Angriff’s editor-in-chief, writes. “It is not decided by outsiders, and no external force has the right to issue orders.
“There is a Jewish tenacity which always discovers some back door. The secret will of the restless remains in its own fashion after every historic decision.
“That is nothing less than impudence. We have not yet reached the stage where it should be permitted to decide the attitude of National Socialist Ministries to the National Socialist Party.
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