NAZI VIOLENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 164, 14 July 1933, Page 5

NAZI VIOLENCE

CONCENTRATION CAMPS THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS FATE OF JEWISH LAWYER (By telegraph- !’■ <. = Association—Copyright) Received July 13. 9.K) p.m LONDON. July 13. Dr. Spiegel, a Jewish lawyer, who was recently marched bv Nazis bardfoot through the streets of Munich with a placard suspended from his neck, which read: “1 never again will complain lo the police about the Nazis. vv s “murdered” while attempting to escape from the <<)ncentrncamp at Dachau. Fhc Daily Herald says that the Nazis admit the death, but the formula “while attempting to escape” is now regularly used b> account for the death- of victims at concentration camps. Moreover, the Dachau camp is surrounded by electrified barbed wire, rendering escape impossible. 'ihe Times’ Berlin correspondent says that curiosity regarding the number of prisoners in the concentration camps has only partially been appeased by the official announcement that there are 18.000, including 12.900 in Prussia. The average estimate, based on the figures of the daily arrests since the Reichstag fire, would have been nearer 100,000. 'Pho Nazi Minister of the Interior for Haxony. Herr Fritsch, recently boasted that there were twice as many prisoners in Saxony’s camps as in Prussia’s. There have also been thousands of arrests in Bavaria and other States recently. GERMAN PUBLIC DEBTORS MEETING WITH CREDITORS AN AGREEMENT REACHED. LONDON. July 12. Representatives of German pubiie debtors and foreign banl¥ creditors met, after which the latter agreed tn recommend granting Germany concessions involving a reduction in rates of interest and postponement of capital repayments in foreign exchange. HITLER A JEW! FAMIL HISTORY TRAcED. AUSTRIAN L’AI'EIUS DI !I"L’C. Received Julv 13. 11.33 p.m. BERLIN. July 1.’,. The Nazi social rcvoluliqii throughout Germany is taking strange Thin*. Ihus the so-called cl causing ’oi the film industry requires that nil film directors, cameramen ami other experts must prove their German nationality and Aryan origin by producing d< .u--inents proving their grandparents’ religion. Curiously enough, siniuitaaeou.-ly in Vienna, thr (Je-ivrrei. h< - Abendblat:. publishes full details of entries «.f birth and about 1829 photo- uf tombstones, proving that Herr Hitler himself is descended from a .lev. i.-h family from Polna in Czechoslovakia. The Prussian Minister of the Interior ha - now prohibited the circulation of 291 foreign newspapers, including live British, 33 French, 18 Austrian, I l Russian ami 12 United States news papers. The sale in Germany of foreign newspapers in German language, printed abroad, has increased enormously dining leccnf months, while tho circulation of local papers has fallen heavily.