Hitler Denies Responsibility for Berlin Anti-semitic Outbreaks As Jews Organize for Self-defense, Wi

by the National Socialists that the excesses were due to Communist provocateurs. The Guardian also deplores the fact that the Lokalanzeiger and other Nationalist papers reported the attacks in a way to create the impression that the disturbances were arranged by Communists. “The Nationalists joined with the National Socialists in encouraging and condoning the ugliest thing in contemporary German life, namely, anti-Semitism,” the Guardian concludes.

While Adolph Hitler, in an interview with the Berlin correspondent of the London Times, denies that his party was responsible for Monday’s anti-Semitic street riots which were timed to coincide with the opening of the Reichstag, an emergency court called into session to consider the case of the arrested rioters sentenced two to six months each in prison, twelve to from three weeks to three months and released the others.

Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, declared himself ready to make a thorough investigation and promised to expel immediately any member of the party whose complicity in the anti-Jewish outbreak was proven. “The National Socialist movement does not need to employ such methods,” Hitler said. “It is a strictly disciplined movement and every member knew that such excesses were against its interest and orders.

“The movement discountenanced violent anti-Semitism,” Hitler declared, adding that he would have nothing to do with pogroms and that that was always his attitude. The doctrine of the National Socialists, he said was “Germany for Germans” and their attitude toward the Jews was governed by the attitude of the Jews toward this doctrine. They had nothing against Jews but if Jews “associated themselves with Bolshevism, as many unfortunately did, they must be regarded as enemies,” Herr Hitler concluded.