abandoned according to Germany’s promise to the Couacil of the League of Nations.
Signs forbidding the entrance of Jews appeared at the entrance of the municipal swimming pools and bathhouses in Gleiwitz, one of the principal cities of Upper Silesia.
A Nazi paper published in Gleiwitz in an article inciting the po-populace to pogrom activities against the Jews, published under the exhoratory heading, “They Must Be Rooted Out!” calls on the Germans to “blot out the Jews from the face of the sun because the Jewish nation is the devil’s nation consisting of criminals and murderers.”
In Dortmund and other towns, the Nazi press features anti-Jewish cartoons and articles actually designed to endanger the lives of the local Jewish population by arousing feeling against the Jews.
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