The first public protest against the National Socialists anti-Semitic propaganda in restaurants, cafes and other public places was launched here today by the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith.
Openly inciting restaurant patrons against Jews in eating places, the Hitlerites have plastered the tables and walls of scores of restaurants with signs saying “German girls ought to be ashamed to sit next to a Jew. Shove him off to his dark Sarahs and Rebeccas.” Christian women sitting next to Jews or men who look like Jews were handed little cards that say “it is unworthy for a German woman to associate with Jews. If our warning is not effective we will publish your name.”
The Nazis’ cards go so far as to threaten with tattooing Christian women associating with Jews. The Nazis organ in Ingolstadt today publishes a list of local girls associating with Jews. The president of the Ingolstadt Hitlerite organization, M. Bergler, a prominent railway official, has sent threatening letters to the parents of all girls seen in the company of Jews.
The 97th desecration of a Jewish cemetery was reported today from the Ruhr town of Hattingen. Fourteen tombstones were demolished.
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