More “Oppressed” Germans

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 16

More “Oppressed” Germans

SPOTLIGHT ON SCHLESWIG LONDON, April 7. The Danzig question is being allowed by the German newspapers to drop, and attention is being concentrated on other “oppressed’’ German minorities. Field-Marshal Goering's uewspaper Xatioual Zeituug (Essen) gives prominence to an article headed: “North Schleswig Germans’ Racial Struggle,” which says: “lu Denmark, Germans have been exposed to increasing economic pressure, but ihey have accepted the Fuhrer’a ideas open-heartedly. The result has been that they have been dismissed from positions and subjected to miserable pinpricks by the Danish authorities and cowardly attacks by members of the auti-Fascist front. “The Germans have maintained their racial characteristics in the most diffi-

cult of circumstances since they were torn from the Reich in 1920. ” It is interesting to note that the Danish minority in North Germany has recently frequently complained that the Nazi authorities have been putting pressure on them to send their children to German schools and that poor relief lms been refused to Danish parents who persist in sending their children to Dunisk-languago schools.