JEWISH BOYCOTT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21919, 3 April 1933, Page 7

JEWISH BOYCOTT

LAUNCHED IN GERMAN CITIES BERLIN COURTS CLOSED WIDESPREAD ACTIVITIES (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, March 31. The Jewish boycott has been officially launched in some German cities. The Nazis demanded the immediate removal of Jewish judges and barristers from the Berlin courts, whereupon they closed. . The Nazis stationed themselves outside Jewish shops and stamped the faces of shoppers at Annaberg Jewish stores with the words: "We are traitors. We bought from Jews." It is estimated that at least SO,OOO Storm Troops and pickets are needed in Berlin alone to enforce the shop, boycott. Herr Gocbels informed foreign correspondents that the anti-Jewish boycott would be starting with iron discipline on April 1, and it would be enforced throughout the day to ascertain the effect in the foreign press. It would be re-established on April 4 if unfavourable comments continued. ' RETALIATORY BOYCOTT JEWS DEPRIVED OF PASSPORTS. BERLIN, March 31. A retaliatory boycott of German goods in France and abroad will coincide with the anti-Jewish boycott. Large orders have already been cancelled. The Nazis have released Jewish judges and lawyers " protectively arrested" at Dusseldorf, Leading Jews have been deprived of their passports to prevent their departure. JEWISH SOLDIERS' PROTEST EINSTEIN'S BANK DEPOSIT CON- . FISCATED. BERLIN, April 1. (Received April 2, at 7 p.m.) Some Jews posted notices such as " I served four years in the front line, this is my reward "; "We Jews help pay for unemployed." The Nazis entered the bank where Professor Einstein kept a deposit of £ISOO, which they confiscated. The Nazis at Nuremberg arrested customers of Jews as enemies of the State. The Polish Consul's intervention prevented a boycott of Polish Jews at Breslau. It is now bepoming almost impossible for Jewish professional men to earn a living in Germany. Jewish barristers in Berlin in future will be limited to SO. Hitherto they have numbered 2000 out of 3600. Hundreds of Jews are fleeing the country, especially doctors, lawyers, scientists, actors, and artists. Herr Streicher, leader of anti-Semitism, says that messages abroad suggest that it will be unnecessary to resume the boycott. Wagner's statue at Munich was desecrated because his second wife was a Jewess. Wreaths were burned and the statue blackened by flames. Dense crowds at Cologne and other Rhiueland towns suggested that the populace should take a holiday to watch the boycott working. It was generally intense. No Jew was overlooked and few risked the threqt of being filmed and exhibited at the kinemas if they entered a Jewish shop. Housewives nevertheless! will probably flock to the Jewish firms on Monday in accordance with custom. A LIMITED BOYCOTT CONFINED TO ONE DAY. BERLIN, April 1. (Received April 2, at 0.20 p.m.) The sudden decision to limit the boycott to one day is regarded in responsible quarters as a recognition of the economic dislocation which will inevitably follow the extension of such a measure. A Nazi boycott official admitted that telegrams from America had led to the exclusion of the Jewish banks from to-day's activities. It is not unlikely that financial reasons put forward in influential quarters a change of the original plan under which the boycott would be continued indefinitely. Even Nazi members of the Cabinet insisted on 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 is started, the leaders will be able to check it. On Saturday night, for the benefit of foreigners, placards were posted in ungrammatical English saying, " Germans, defend yourself against Jewish atrocity propaganda." There is reason to believe that the limitation of the anti-Jewish boycott is due to von Neurath's threat to resign if it is carried through. Herr Hitler thereupon compromised to one day, and von Neurath consented to stay in the Cabinet. When the official boycott began many Jewish shops did not open, and others were heavily picketed. Nazis placarded the windows warning customers that they trade at the risk of their live?. JEWISH SOLICITOR LYNCHED. BERLIN, April 1. (Received April 2, at 11.45 p.m.) One boycott resulted in lynch law at Kiel, where Schomm, a Jewish solicitor, arrived to attend his sister's wedding. He was unable to enter his father's shop owing to Nazi pickets, and a scuffle ensued. Schomm drew a revolver which was accidentally discharged, wounding a Storm trooper, Ashalter. Storm Troops then smashed the shop windows and arrested the family. A rumour spread that Ashalter was dead and the mob destroyed the shop, stormed the gaol, where Schomm was detained, and riddled him with bullets. Ashalter died later. The boycott generally has lost force owing to the Jewish Sabbath. Many shops are closed. Some 2000 employees idled their time at Wertheim's big store until they were sent home. Storm Troops surrounded the Berlin bourse and prevented the Jews entering. Pickets are prominent in the streets and offices. Doctors, lawyers and small shops are unmolested.