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Refugee Points out Futility of Sending Investigation Commission to Germany

April 2, 1933
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The futility of sending a Commission of Investigation to Germany to inquire into the atrocities is pointed out today to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by a refugee from Germany, who held an important position in Berlin, but whose name cannot for obvious reasons be disclosed. He declares that even a father, whose son might have been murdered by Nazis, would not only decline to give evidence, but would actually deny the murder of his son for fear that a similar fate ###ght befall his entire family.

### addition the refugee points out ### references to cruelties or excesses ###ow scrupulously avoided in the en###erman press upon which a strict that ###hip has been imposed Thus, he ######case of a provincial Nazi pa### inadvertently published a cites ### showing Jews cleaning the per, whi### an armed Nazi escort photograp###### immediately ordered the streets und##ll available copies, and The authorit## difficulty that Jewish destruction of old sccure a single it was only with ###. leaders abroad co### fact that the copy of the photograp ### have been

Added to this is th### that they German Jewish orga### to any intimidated to s### helpful ### The Commission of investigation. ###se refugee also observed that in any ### investigation is quite superflous as ### anti-Jewish boycott, for instance, is being conducted quite openly and with the use of all possible means of dissemination, radio, press and film.

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