(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The products of children’s imaginative minds in inventing excuses for absece from school or failure to obey their parents’ instructions, caused concern to the Central Verein, German Jewish body engaged in anti-defamation work.
In many localities in Upper Silesia various tales suddenly cropped up to the effect that “Jews with black earlocks in a black automobile”, lured Christian boys and girls to ride out of town and then threatened them with death. The anti-Semitic newspapers in the Silesian towns started the publication of these tales. Finally, the Central Verein undertook an investigation of the stories.
It proved that in no case was there any foundation, the stories being merely the fanciful excuses of school children.
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