After the attempted assassination of the Hamburg Police chief, Lassally by the Hitlerist Police Sergeant Pohl, a young Jewish shop assistant named Arthur Knopf, has been stabbed by Hitlerist high school students in the town of Preussisch-Holland, in East Prussia, while they were going through the streets in demonstration. Knopf is in a critical condition and is not expected to live. On being arrested the students said that they stabbed him because they don’t like Jews.
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