The Nazi campaign against the Jews continues on all fronts in Germany with an ever-increasing tempo and bitterness. Leading Nazi papers led by the Voelkischer Beobachter, Der Angriff and Julius Streicher’s Stuermer are filled with inciting articles against the Jews of Germany and other countries.
The bare announcement in today’s Nazi papers of the confiscation of the ancient synagogue of Sulzbach in Bavaria and its impending conversion into a city museum reveals the tragic story of the Sulzbach Jewish community.
Under the pretext that the Jewish community was no longer able to maintain the synagogue, Sulzbach authorities announced the confiscation, and revealed that since the Nazi regime has been in power, the 170 Jewish families of the town have been reduced to eight persons, one man and seven women. No indication is given in the official announcement as to what has happened to the flourishing Jewish community in the eighteen months of Nazi power.
WILL DESTROY JEWISH TRACES
The Sulzbach announcement emphasized the fact that the Ark, which formerly contained the scrolls of the law, the sculptured Ten Commandments, and everything that is reminiscent of Judaism, would be completely destroyed.
Under a screaming headline, “Jews Look at You,” Der Angriff, Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ organ devoted its entire first page to demanding another “purge” of all bookshops in Germany in order to “clean out” all books written by Jews and exiles.
The Nazi paper complained bitterly that “Jew-written” books are again becoming best sellers in Germany despite the notorious bonfire of last year and that many authors who are in exile are still receiving large royalties from the sale of their books in Germany.
MAYOR BEGS PUBLICITY
While Der Stuermer, the most bitter anti-Jewish paper in Germany, proudly announced that the paper has been introduced as part of the required study in the racial course given in the schools of the city of Magdeburg, Dr. Markmann, the mayor and local Nazi leader of Magdeburg, has been writing letters to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent in Berlin and other foreign newspapermen asking them to publicize the attractiveness of Magdeburg as a city for tourists and asking American non-Jews to visit the City.
Streicher’s paper also contains a furious call signed by Streicher himself and addressed to all Christians, asking them to “get rid of the Jews once and for all.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
