Nazi newspapers continued today a campaign to arouse German sentiment against the Jews in connection with the trial of David Frankfurter, Yugoslavian Jewish medical student, for the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi agent, scheduled to open in Switzerland on Dec. 3.
Chancellor Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter and Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ Der Angriff published identical articles urging the public to read Nazi literature on the Gustloff case “to obtain a clear picture of the machinations of Judah, which constitute a danger not only to the Third Reich but to the order of Europe.”
Charging that the Gustloff assassination was part of a plot to destroy the Nazi movement and the Fuehrer, the article declared that the trial was aimed more to discredit the Nazi movement than to prove the guilt of Frankfurter.
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