NAZIS’ CURRENCY LAWS
ALLEGED BREACHES AT HAMBURG MANY MERCHANTS UNDER ARREST (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December ,8, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 7. A series of arrests of leading merchants during the past three months has perturbed the business community at Hamburg, says the correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. Many directors of important firms have been taken into custody and charged with violating the complicated currency regulations. General Hermann Goering, who is in charge of the Nazi Four-Year Plan of economic self-sufficiency, ordered an independent investigation, and it was hoped that the cases would be settled out of court; but the Chamber of Commerce protested to the Nazi Governor (Herr Kauffmann). Apparently the alleged offences are merely technical, and the arrests are damaging the credit of leading firms. A fantastic situation is that those arrested are technically liable to decapitation for economic sabotage under General Goering’s own law. Herr Lademann, a member of Emden and Sons, a most esteemed mercantile firm, committed suicide in gaol.
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Southland Times, Issue 23378, 9 December 1937, Page 5
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