Condemning the attacks on Jews during the demonstrations against the American-made talking picture, All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the highest officials in the German foreign office today denied to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the government had capitulated to the Hitlerites by ordering the picture withdrawn from the Hollendorfplatz theatre.
The official, who preferred to remain anonymous, pointed out that as one who had seen four years of war in the front line, he does not find the film version of Remarque’s book a pacifistic influence. “It displays only the raw sides of war but omits the heroism of the participants and hence those who took part in the war feel insulted.
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