Foreign News: Land of Justice

Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring last week prepared to adopt outright thievery as an economy policy. The multi-uniformed economic dictator signed a decree providing for confiscation of practically all Jewish property throughout Greater Germany.

Jewish real estate and money holdings in Germany are estimated at $2.000,000,000, in German Austria at $800,000,000. The sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided...

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