GERMAN EXILE’S TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1933, Page 7

GERMAN EXILE’S TRAGEDY

VICTIM OF NAZI CAMPAIGN ARTICLE ALLEGED FORGERY ■ . ' . ’ i. 1 * ’ DISASTER TO HIS FAMILY EX-GERMAN CHANCELLOR By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Vienna, July 18. Herr Schneidemann, the ex-Socialist German Chancellor, has informed the German Social Democratic Party that he is now quartered, at Prague. The article for which his family has been' interned was a forgery which, added to political intrigues, led to. the fatal apoplexy of his wife, he adds. Herr Schneidemann said that his eldest daughter-and her-husband were victims of mob intrigue and committed suicide after 20 years of happy marriage. “The Government has confiscated my estate and my printers’ union pensions and parliamentary salary, but although Berlin offers me a choice between the guillotine, and suicide, I shall be present when the Day of Judgment comes,” he. said.

Inaugurating a new method of “defending Nazi Germany against attacks from enemies abroad,” five relatives of Herr Schiedemann were arrested and sent to a concentration camp as a warning to “slanderers.” Herr Schiedemann was accused of trying to start a new atrocity campaign by articles published in America. ......

The Nazi Cabinet passed laws directed against Herr Schiedemann and other exiles, decreeing that enemies of the State living abroad may forfeit their property and lose German citizenship if they refused to return to Germany when summoned.