NAZIS BOYCOTT IS UNDERWAY IN BERLIN

Nashua Telegraph
Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
1 April 1933

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NAZIS BOYCOTT IS UNDERWAY IN BERLIN

BROWNSHIRTS DAUB PAINT
ON OFFENDING STORE WINDOWS

Holiday Crowds Out to Watch Proceedings In
Picnic Spirit—Few Jews to Be Seen—Big
Department and Chain Stores Did
Not Open

BERLIN, April 1, (AP)—Brown-shirted Nazis with
buckets of paint tramped through Berlin’s business sec-
tion today, stopping at each shop run by a Jew and
splashing across the show window a sign identifying the
place.
At their heels followed holiday crowds. The day of the
boycott ordered by the National Socialist party against
all Germany’s Jews, coinciding with April Fool’s Day
and Bismarck’s birthday, brought more people downtown
in the balmy sunny weather than had been seen for a
long time.
Each time the brown shirts stopped to hand up a pla-
card crowds clustered about them. “That’s right,” they
said, “freeze them out, then we’ll take over their shops.”
There had been no disorder up to the end
of the afternoon. There were few Jews to be seen, but
the rest of the populace seemed to accept the situation
in a picnic spirit.

Nazi headquarters prescribed a
black placard with a splash of yel-
low paint to designate Jewish
shops, but the boycotters used their
imagination.
The black and yellow “quaran-
tine “sign was frequently seen, but
there were others reading: “Dan-
ger—Jew store,” and “attention—
beware of Jew,” with a red skull
and crossbones scrawled below the
warning.
On several Jewish shops the
Nazis hung placards bearing: “If
a traitor you would be, purchase
from the Jewery.”
The boycott began on schedule
at 10 o’clock but at that hour many
Jewish shops remained open de-
spite the signs on their windows.
The big department stores and the
Jewish chain stores all over Ger-
many did not open.

BERLIN, Apr 1 (AP)– A one-day
boycott on the means of livelihood
of all Jews in Germany began at 10
a. m. today.
The German Stores Union issued
an appeal to all members coming
under the boycott ban to close
their stores for the day.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels, cabinet min-
ister of propaganda, keynoted the
campaign with a warning that un-
less “the foreign atrocity campaign
ceases absolutely” the boycott will
be resumed next Wednesday. He
promised, however, “a return to Please Turn to Page Two

NAZIS BOYCOTT
IS UNDERWAY
IN BERLIN

–Continued from First Page– normal” if this condition was ful-
filled.
A government order changed the
National Socialist party’s proposed
indefinite boycott to one of a day’s
duration for the time being and it
remained to be seen which of op-
posing groups in the government
and party would be victorious in
the end.
One small comfort was derivable
from the present limitations for a
half million distracted German
Jews who to all practical purposes
already are ostracized socially and
professionally.
There were so many tragic as-
pects to the situation that the boy-
cott was only another bitter
draught.
Such permanent measures as
barring Jews from legal practice,
removing them from courts, hospi-
tals and public institutions have
been issued.All Doors Closed Doors were being closed to them
all around. Jewish shop owners
yesterday were ordered to dis-
charge Jewish employes. The big
Karstadt department store firm an-
nounced the resignation of Jewish
members of the directorate and the
dismissal of Jewish employes.
The National Socialist Physi-
cians’ society issued the following
statement:
“No German must ever go to a
Jewish doctor again for treatment
or buy at Jewish apothecaries. It
is untrue that Jewish doctors, den-
tists and druggists are indispen-
sable or better than Germans.”
The Municipal Sick Relief soci-
ty issued a statement forbidding
members from receiving treatment
from Jewish physicians or patron-
izing Jewish druggists, opticians,
dentists and masseurs of Jewish
owned medical baths, X-ray in-
stitutions and clinics.
Dr. Doebbels further warned that
“if New York and London boycotts
German goods,” the government
will “take its gloves off” in hand-
ling the Jewish problem.
Chancellor Hitler’s government,
which had remained silent while
the boycott plans were formulated
by the party, was placed in the po-
sition of endorsing the action when
Dr. Goebels read a government pro-
nouncement last night at a packed
meeting of Nazis.

He whipped them into a frenzy
of antipathy for the Jews and
shouts of “hang them” broke into
his attack. He accused the Jews
of robbing German workers of their
bread by forcing an international
anti-German boycott. Admits Purpose He admitted the Nazi government
leaders were determined to carry
out their long promised measures
against Jews, but declared the
qustion would not have arisen so
soon if it had not been for world-
wide Jewish activities.
“When American and English
Jews attack the German govern-
ment we cannot hinder German
people from attacking the German
Jews.” he said.
Declaring he hoped no further re-
ports of alleged atrocities would be
published in the United States and
other countries during the next few
days, he asserted those days would
determine whether the boycott is
to be resumed.
Mass meetings were planned to-
day as part of the program of the
boycott and placarded automobiles
with loud-speakers were to roam
the streets while thousands of Nazi
brown shirted troops picketed all
Jewish businesses.
The government’s strict orders
against any violence and the law
forbidding the entry of pickets into
shops, it was hoped, would help
to curb any boisterous Nazi ele-
ments.
The boycott actually got under
way last night in Munish, the Nazi
party headquarters, with armed
storm troops guarding Jewish
shops. Signs bearing the word
“Jews” hung before each of them.