Rudolf Hess, Chancellor Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi Party, told a group of workers here today: “We have shown patience toward the Jews but they abused it. When vom Rath was assassinated by a Jew our cup was full. It is said that among the Jews of Germany there are innocents. But are there not innocents among the Arabs? Were there not innocents among the Boer women and children when they were placed in concentration camps by the British?”
Hess charged that the Jews were authors of “atrocities” in Spain and Russia. He recalled that Britain had expelled the Jews in the thirteenth century. Replying to “well-intentioned persons” who state that Germany is doing itself harm by expelling the Jews, Hess declared: “We ask these well-intentioned people to take in these useful Jews. We do not want them any more. We acted thus for the good of the German workers since their difficulties diminished only after the Fuehrer assumed power.”
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