GERMANY: Salesmen Delicensed

Up to last week, more than 40% of Germany’s traveling salesmen, 110,000 out of 265,000, were Jews. Despite Nazi antiSemitism, many large German firms have preferred to retain Jewish salesmen because, although officially scorned and often individually spat upon, they have managed to outsell Aryan competitors, Last week the Government decided that after October 1 all traveling salesmen in Germany must be Aryans, decreed that the licenses of all Jewish sales representatives in the Reich, which expire this week, cannot be renewed. These licenses correspond to the labor permits issued by the Labor Front, which every employe, German or Jew, must have before he can get a job.

According to Nazi bigwigs, not a few of the 110,000 Jewish traveling salesmen thus left jobless are likely to be pressed into service digging on the Siegfried Line of German defenses against Fiance, where they will be paid 24¢ per hour.