One year ago that Prussian aristocrat, Nazi Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, was given the highly congenial task of plucking the Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME, Nov. 21).
Fortnight ago, Grynszpan, still awaiting trial in Paris, unsuccessfully petitioned to be allowed to join the French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany,...
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