"America, which of all other lands has taken it upon itself to set up a movement against our methods of self-defense, has the least excuse for such action. The American people were the first to draw practical and political conclusions from differences among races and from the different value of different races.
"Through its immigration laws it has prevented the entry of those races which seemed unwelcome to the American people. And America today is by no means ready to open its doors to so-called refugee jews from Germany, whereby we must
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emphasize that in reality not a hair of any Jewish head has been touched."
So last week spoke Adolf Hitler before a meeting of the German Medical Federation. Under his hand Germany proceeded openly to reduce her Jewish inhabitants to the social and political position occupied by Negroes in the southern U. S. and Orientals in the West.
Open boycotting and outbursts of physical violence dwindled, but of the 2,000 Jewish lawyers in Berlin. Prussia gave only 35 license to practice. The drive to drive Jews from the professions spread to medicine, education, the arts. The rectors of the Universities of Frankfort and Brunswick were arrested last week. Officials of the Berlin municipal insurance system announced that they would pay the bills of no Jewish physicians rendered after April 1. Because they signed an official protest against persecution of Jewish musicians in Germany, German radio stations were ordered to bar all records or compositions by Arturo Toscanini, Walter Damrosch, Sergei Koussevitzky, Artur Bodanzky, Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
Kosher killing of meat, banned by several German States fortnight ago, was forbidden through the entire Reich last week. From Nazi headquarters came strong hints that any German official married to a Jewess had better get a divorce if he wished to keep his job.
Once more last week police patrols and armed bands of Nazis raided a Jewish quarter in Berlin. Streets were closed, pedestrians stopped, houses searched.
Finally with a glimmer of moderation Hitler issued a new decree laying down the nation-wide rules for Jewish lawyers. Like the law covering Government employes, it gave full rights to pre-War Jewish lawyers who had fought in the War, were not Communists and whose fathers or sons died in the War. All others were subject to disbarment. Annulling all State laws, it stepped up the total of practising Berlin lawyers from 35 to 1,000. One Jewish grandparent makes a Jew in Germany.
Hanussen. The bullet-riddled body of Erik Jan Hanussen (born Steinschneider) was found in a wood near Bayreuth last week. Herr Hanussen was one of Europe's best known fortunetellers; he predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler several years ago. Three weeks ago he suddenly quit a vaudeville engagement in Berlin "because of an impending nervous breakdown."
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder.