An American Jew, Harry Dick, 40-year-old musician, returned from Germany on the President Roosevelt today, asserting that he had been imprisoned for six months because he was A Jew. Mr. Dick said he was kept in wet and filthy prisons, crowded with degenerates, and that he was given only garbage to eat. He charged that the American Consul in Hamburg had done little to obtain his release. Recently, Harry Greentree, a California Jew, was arrested in Germany during the wave of arrests, but was released within a few days.
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