Mourning for the death of Germany’s aged president, Paul von Hindenburg, but abstaining from greeting the coming into power of Adolf Hitler, German Jewry today joined in the grief of the nation through solemn statements issued by all central Jewish organizations in Germany. All the statements were unani-
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