PERSECUTION OF JEWS

Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 9

PERSECUTION OF JEWS

FRESH OUTBURST IN GERMANY THOUSANDS LIVING IN STATE OF TERROR Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, June 18. Thousands of Jews have been plunged into a state of terror as a result of Berlin’s outburst of anti-Semitism. Tho Gestapo is hourly rounding up dozens of Jews. It is estimated that nearly 1,600 were arrested during the week and their relatives have not been informed of the reasons for the arrests or their fate. Jewish shops throughout the city are closing in fear of violence. The Government insists that the arrests are purely directed against criminals. Fresh anti-Jewish moves include the ordering of all Jewish shops to have their names painted on the windows in white letters. The traffic police have received lists of Jewish car owners with their car numbers, accompanied! by orders to arrest them at sight. Despite every effort to whip up public resentment, the crowds watching the acts of persecution appear sympathetic towards the Jews. The campaign is obviously offending public opinion. IN AUSTRIA. The Vienna correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that Jewish persecution in Vienna is most bitter. Thousands wait all night outside the English, and American Consulates for the purpose of registering for migration, which is usually impossible. There can be no Jewish family in the country, it is estimated, without one or two members under arrest. The Vienna correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says that, manacled in chains, Karl Lang, Austria’s public executioner, who officially strangled a number of condemned! Nazis, was himself executed.