History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Cruelty to Jews

Publication Date: Wednesday, March 29, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
This database includes 4,061 articles about this event
Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Early Acts of Persecution
Article Type: Editorial or Opinion Piece
Newspaper: The Staunton News-Leader/The Evening Leader
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Page Section and Number: 4
Author/Byline: --
Article Text: The attack in Germany on the Jews, carried to the extreme now threatened is mystifying in all ther lands. At first it was explained as due to a desire on the part of Hitler to keep burning the fires of hatred already stirred by him against the nations that had united to conquer Germany; and lest his followers might cool in their first ardor, an effort was made to keep it alive by attacking the Jews, to which there is always some favorable reaction in Central European countries.

Now the attack goes to the extreme of cruelty, and no telling what is to be the outcome. It is the height of folly on the part of Germany, for the reason that, whereas, in most lands, especially in the United States, sympathy with Germany had become general, now there will be a reaction, all this sympathy will disappear, and the keenest horror and resentment will be excited, have in fact already been excited. How far this resentment will carry America and other countries remains to be seen, but it will carry them far. It is difficult, well nigh impossible, to speak in moderation on the subject.

Far more is involved than cruelty to the Jews; the attack if continued cannot fail to check progress of every kind. On this ground alone it is vitally important that the disturbance shall come to a speedy end.
History Unfolded Contributor: Jennifer G.
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