History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Germans Guard Jews
Sub-Headline: Foreign Propaganda Charging Atrocities Is Denied by Hitler Aide

Publication Date: Sunday, March 26, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Early Acts of Persecution
Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: Nevada State Journal
Location: Reno, Nevada
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: UP
Article Text: BERLIN, March 25—(UP)—Persecution of Jews will not be permitted in Germany, Hermann Goering, member of the Hitler cabinet and Prussian interior minister, told the press today.

Foreigners, Jewish or not, may safely travel in Germany this summer, he declared.

Goering pleaded for fairness in reports of conditions in Germany. He said foreign propaganda alleging atrocities and indignities against Jews in Germany is more likely to harm than help Jews here.

"None of the stories is really true, although there have been occasional instances of maltreatment," he said. "These were committed by storm troopers not under orders, who will be dealt with for breach of discipline."

Goering admitted he saw two people extremely badly beaten but "for reasons which in the United States would lead to lynching."

He declared neither the Reich nor Prussian governments intended to make discriminatory laws and said he never would suffer a person to be persecuted because he was Jew. He added that the world should be aware that Germany stemmed communism and saved occidental culture.
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