NAZI BOYCOTT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21457, 3 April 1933, Page 9

NAZI BOYCOTT

JEWS IN GERMANY LIMIT OF ONE DAY EYE ON FOREIGN PRESS REACTION TO BE NOTED [WARNING TO CUSTOMERS J3y lYleprnph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 2, 2.55 p.m.) BERLIN, April 1 The anti-Jewish boycott has hcen bffirially launched in some German cities. Nazis demanded the immediate removal of Jewish Judges and barristers from the Berlin Courts, whereupon the Courts were immediately closed. Na:ds stationed themselves outside Jewish shops in Annaberg and stamped the faces of shoppers with the words: " We are traitors, we have bought from the Jews." It is estimated that at least 30,000 storm troops will be needed as pickets for Berlin alone to enforce the boycott. A retaliatory boycott of German goods in France and abroad will coincide with the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany. Large orders havo already been cancelled. Tho Nazis have released Jewish Judges and lawyers who were " protectively arrested." In Dusseldorf leading Jews have been deprived of their passports to prevent their departure from the country. Minister's Threat to Resign Tho Minister of Propaganda, Herr Goebbels, informed foreign correspondents that tho anti-Jewish boycott, or " iron discipline," would be started to-day and enforced all day to ascertain the effect on the foreign press. It would bo re-established next Tuesday if unfavourable comments continued. There is reason to believe that the limitation of the boycott was due to Baron von Neurath's threat to resign if it was carried through. The Chancellor, Herr Hitler, thereupon compromised to the one day. Baron von Neurath then consented to stay in the Cabinet. When the official boycott began many Jewish shops were not opened. They were heavily picketed by Nazis who placarded the 'windows warning customers that if they traded there they would risk their lives. Sop to Nazi Extremists The sudden decision to limit the boycott to one day is regarded in responsible quarters as a recognition of the economic dislocation which inevitably would follow an extension of such a measure. A Nazi official admitted that telegrams from America had led to the exclusion of Jewish banks from to-day's activities. It is not unlikely that financial reasons urged by influential quarters caused the change in the original plan under which tho boycott would have continued indefinitely. Even the Nazi members of the Cabinet insisted upon the desirability of avoiding economic complications. It is suspected in some quarters that the whole campaign is a sop to the Nazi extremists who for years have been incited to anti-Semitism. It remains to be seen whether, once the boycott has started, tho leaders can check it by to-night. For the benefit of foreigners placards have been posted in ungranunatical English saying: " Germans defend yourself against Jewish atrocity." Nazis Commit Excesses Some Jews posted notices on their premises, such as: "I served four years in the front line. Ihis is my reward," and "Wo Jews help to pay for the unemployed." Nazis entered the bank where Dr. Albert Einstein kept a deposit of £ISOO which they confiscated. Nazis at Nuremberg arrested the customers of Jews as " enemies of the State." . . Tho Polish Consul s intervention prevented the boycott of Polish Jews in Breslau. . c It is becoming almost impossible for Jewish professional men to earn a living in Germany. The Jewish barristers in Berlin in future aro to be limited to 30. Hitherto they have numbered 2000 out of a total of 3600. Hundreds Flee From Country Hundreds of Jews are fleeing from Germany, especially doctors, lawyers, scientists, actors and artists. Herr Streicher, leader of the antiSemitism movement, says messages sent abroad suggest that it will not bo necessary to resume the boycott. Wagner's statue in Munich was desecrated because the second wife of the composer was a Jewess. W re:i is ere burned and the statue was blackened by the flames. . , Dense crowds in Cologne and other Rhineland towns suggested that tlie people were taking a holiday to watch the boycott working. It was generally intense. No Jew was overlooked ant few risked the threat of being filmed and having their photographs exhibited in cinemas if they entered a Jewisn tho Gentiles profited little. Housewives probably will nock to the Jewish firms again on Monday in accordance with their custom. RUSSIANS ARRESTED OIL COMPANY EMPLOYEES SOVIET EMBASSY'S WARNING (Received April 2, 9.35 p.m.) BERLIN. April 1 A party of Prussian police raided the headquarters of the Russo-German Petroleum Company and arrested 13 employees. The Russian Embassy declares that this is tho climax to raids on tho company's branches in Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and elsewhere, and may strain the relations between Germany and Russia. SOVIET'S ECONOMY STATE EMPLOYEES SUFFER WHOLESALE DISMISSALS(Received April 2, 5.5 p.m.) HELINGSFORS, April 1 Reports from Moscow state that as the result of the Soviet Government s orders for an economy campaign 154,000 State employees have been discharged. This represents a saving of about £60,000,000. Further considerable reductions are inspected.