NAZI FEROCITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 284, 28 October 1933, Page 7

NAZI FEROCITY

BRITISH M.P.’S INVESTIGATION. TREATMENT OF JEWS. A STRONG DENUNCIATION. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 28, 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 27. Mr R. H. Bernays, Labour MiP. for North Bristol, summarising in the Contemporary Review the result of three weeks’ investigation of Germany, ■declares that the ferocity of the antiJewish drive has been intensified. Whole families are workless and the suicides are increasing. The anti-Jewish boycott is not slackening, though the beatings have enormously diminished. Jews are not interned as Jews, but as opponents of the Government. Some Nazi leaders revolted Mr Bernays. The worst atrocities were the Government regulations designed to deprive the Jews of their livelihood. Suicides in the pre-Hitler days were nothing compared with those now occurring. The Jews had less chance of employment in Germany than a convict in England. “England should maintain her moral pressure and officially boycott German goods and assist Jewish migration,” he said. ‘ . THE COMING ELECTION. PROMINENT NAZI NAMES. Received October 28, 11.25 a.m. BERLIN, Oct. 27. The Nazis’ fuff list of election candidates numbers 600, including all the Nazis in the last Parliament. The official list of candidates is headed by Herr Hitler, then Herr Hess, Her Frick, General Goering, Dr. Goebbels, Herr Roehm and Herr Darre, all pillars of Nazism. Then comes Herr Seltde, the leader of the Steel Helmets, Herr von Papen and Dr. A. Hugenberg, the Nationalist leader. Captain Goering, Minister in Charge of the Prussian Police, announces that reliable non-Nazis will co-operate in the organisation of the elections in oi;der to secure fairness. The votes will be counted publicly, though voters will secretly mark the ballots. Forty million persons are entitled to vote, of whom it is expected that 39,000,000 will participate in the plebiscite, 35,000,000 voting in the affirmative. THE PENAL SYSTEM. A GENERAL REVISION. "BERLIN, Oct. 27. Light on tlie new German penal code based on Nazi principles lias been thrown by Dr Frank, Minister of Justice. He describes the guiding idea of the code, which will be inaugurated possibly before the end of the year, as protection for the “strong, healthy, and efficient part of tlie nation against the inferior,, decadent minority.” Dr Frank says that society as a whole must not wait until attacked, but must take . advance, measures in defence. “Racial security” will be ensured by sterilising chronic criminals and other inferior elements. The Italian example has been followed in the attitude toward offences against the State. Treason will incur the heaviest penalties. The civil law also is being revised with a view to securing “certainty, speed, and authority.” Unnecessary formalities and bureaucratic methods will be abolished. Finally, a special committee will, be appointed to deal with the relationship of the citizen to tlie new State in matters of right of property, family inheritance, and so forth. CHANCELLOR’S ASSERTION. FISTS AS WEAPONS. BERLIN, Oct. 27. Herr Hitler, speaking at Cologne, said: “When others say everything is wrong in Germany, I reply ‘Come and look.’ We have only our fists as weapons. The others have twenty thousand, perhaps thirty thousand, tanks and aeroplanes. Isn’t that a threat against Germany?” ;