A drastic, well-organized anti-Jewish boycott has been renewed all over Germany apparently at the orders of Nazi headquarters which have been concerned over the gradual fading in emphasis of the earlier boycott orders.
Signs exhorting “Germans—Buy From Germans” reappeared this week in many stores and Berlin was flooded with “German Goods” labels affixed at the entrance of many stores to indicate that these establishments are boycotting Jewish-manufactured goods and are handling products made by Aryans only.
Messengers are now delivering placards to Berlin stores and notifying their proprietors to display the cards in prominent positions. These placards feature a painting of a sunrise over a large swastika. Underneath the illustration is the phrase “German People—Buy German Goods.”
To define the meaning of “German goods,” many firms add a line that they deal only in merchandise manufactured by Germans, not by non-Aryans.
The drop in German exports and the effect of the Jewish boycott against German products throughout the world, has caused the Government much perturbation. Many German industrialists, who did not feel the effects of the boycott until very recently are now badly hit by it.
In view of this, it will not be surprising if the German Government should order the resumption openly of the campaign against Jewish firms, in retaliation for the boycott beyond the confines of the Reich and as a measure to force the Jews abroad to give up their anti-Nazi boycott drive.
The campaign against Jewish physicians was resumed this week with great severity. Drug stores received secret orders not to accept prescriptions from Jewish doctors. Berlin school authorities were ordered not to recognize certificates of illness issued by Jewish doctors to school children. Health certifi-
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