EXODUS FROM GERMANY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18058, 7 April 1933, Page 7

EXODUS FROM GERMANY

PERSECUTED JEWS VICTIMISATION CONTINUES TRAGIC SUICIDES REPORTED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 7, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. The Times’ Berlin correspondent states that another suicide is added to those of a Jewish judge and two lawyers. Herr liettinann, a young assessor, was discharged from the Heidelberg law courts. He went home and saw a warning attached to his father’s door, walked to the cemetery and shot himself, leaving a letter hoping that his sacrifice was not in vain. Another outrage against German Jews outside German territory is reported at Gaslei, Liechtenstein. Two brothers, Alfred and Fritz Rotter, formerly leading theatre managers in Berlin, Avere walking with Alfred’s wife and Frau Wolf when seven young gunmen stopped them and tried to drag them to a waiting motor car. Alfred and the women struggled free and jumped down a ravine in an effort to escape. Frau Wolf Avas found injured and the other tAVO dead. In the meantime, the kidnappers secured Fritz and drove furiously towards the Austrian Tyrol. Fritz, at Tiiesenberg, leaped from the car and fractured his skull. The police stopped the car at Tyrol and arrested the occupants, who were gaoled at Feidhirch.

Captain Goering has issued a decree that owing to tho overcrowding of the professions, foreigners are debarred from practising . medicine, chemistry, and dentistry. With the boycott receding into the background, other steps for tho protection of national interests are coming into vieAV. The Cabinet lias promulgated a new law providing the death penalty for acts of political terrorism including arson and sabotage of public utilities. The issue of visas is made more strict to prevent the departure of citizens suspected of activities detrimental to the State, such as tho dissemination of false reports.

Three thousand Jews have arrived at Basle from Germany in the past foAV days. The majority Avere prosperous busi ness people, who tell stories of persecution. Many proceeded to France. Fifteen hundred Jews arrived at Amsterdam yesterday, many afoot, being unable to pay railway fare. BRUTALITY TO JEWS VICTIMS OF NAZIS WORLD-WIDE HORROR LONDON, March 30. The Daily Telegraph’s special commissioner in Europe says: The gates of the Oluitto are slowly but surely closing in Germany. The speed has been retarded by the world-wide horror of the pogrom, and threats of reprisals, but tile Nazi policy of violent anti-Semitism is still persisting. Herr Hitler’s followers maintain that tho Jews reaped enormous wtfhlth out of Germany’s currency misfortunes, by devious means, and are tho intellectual leaders of Socialism and Communism, the parties which are accused of planning the revolution that the Hitler dictatorship squashed. The Jews retort that the Nazis wish to cut adrift from Christianity, and therefore, are destroying Jews in order to torpedo the Old Testament. Nazi writers have recently urged that Christianity has been responsible for the misery of tho German people, and they demand the return of the old German gods. Their literature is full of tho glorification of Thor and Wodin, and their cruelties.

SPATE OF ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIVITY

In Dresden an anonymous pamphlet was circulated on the eve of the elections, charging the Jews with the ritual murder of girls in Berlin, and a similar brochure is now being sold in the streets of Berlin.

There is a spate of anti-Semitic activity in come parts of Germany, but a curious quietness in others. The Leipzig Fair is in full swing, and the major, ify of the stalls belong to Jews, but no persecution has been suffered by them. On tho other hand, swaggering young ruffians in Berlin have been able to seize Jews and place them in private prisons. Numbers disappear '“spurlos” (without leaving a trace), while a Nazi round-up of Marxists has brought thousands into the official nets.

Tho following are authenticated new stories of brutalities, says the correspondent : Rabbi Baerwald was dragged out ol bed in Munich and taken to a courtyard, where rifles were aimed at him and the order was given to fire. He expected instant death, but instead, tho firing squad burst out into laughter, considering it a huge joke. Professor Zondak, a world-famous surgeon, was taken from Berlin Hospital and, with his family, beaten with sticks.

A Pole, walking along a street in Berlin, was dragged to a restaurant and told to drink an unspeakably filthy liquid. He refused, and was beaten into insensibility with rubber bludgeons. Seven Jews in Frankfurt were dragged to the Nazi headquarters and compelled by threats, emphasised with revolvers, to flog one another until some became unconscious.

In Magdeburg, six Nazis entered a hotel and beat all tne visitors in the lounge, many being stabbed with knives Three Jews in Worms were compelled to flog one another. In Falkenslein, Plauen, Zwickau, Dnesburg, Chemnitz, Essen and Hamborn, and numbers of other towns, equal brutality has been exhibited.