Admission of the extent to which anti-Jewish violence is being pushed in Germany was practically made by Chancellor Hitler in an address to Cabinet members, diplomats and newspaper correspondents last night, when he declared that Germany had achieved “rebirth” at the price of 330 killed 40,000 wounded and 100,000 driven from commercial life. He stated that these were the figures on the revolution which led to his rise to power.
Virtual dictatorship will be established with regard to the press and in the Federation of German Industries, the Nazis announced.
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