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Headline: Hitler Moves Come Swiftly
Sub-Headline: Reawakening of Germany is More Rapid Than Similar Event in Italy

Publication Date: Saturday, March 18, 1933
Historical Event: Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
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Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Refugees and Immigration; Early Acts of Persecution
Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Hutchinson News
Location: Hutchinson, Kansas
Page Section and Number: 3
Author/Byline: Albert W. Wilson (AP)
Article Text: New York, March 18.—(AP)—The "reawakening" of Germany, as Adolf Hitler calls it, is taking effect much more swiftly and with more far-reaching effects than the similar undertaking of Benito Mussolini in Italy a decade ago.

It was nearly two years after Mussolini came into power that Matteotti, his Socialist foe, was silenced, and another year before the opposition in the press and parliament was entirely subdued.

Next Tuesday, Germany's parliament is expected to become indefinitely extinct whereas Italy's still exists. Less than three months after Hitler's ascension, the leftist press of Germany has been silenced and rigor mortis already is setting in for Centrist organs.

Many Leave Country.

The German emigration resulting from the strafing the Socialists, Communists and Jews are getting from Hitler's brown shirts certainly is heavy, thousands having fled to surrounding countries.

The new diaspora of Jews is the most remarkable phenomena of this general flight. It is from the country where Jewish Liberalism saw its birth and where nearly 600,000 Jews represent the largest population of the race in any European nation outside of Russia and Poland.

No single development has brought this more sharply to the attention of the world than the decision of Albert Einstein, famous physicist, to live elsewhere while Hitler rides the saddle. Einstein is sailing from New York today to establish a residence in exile in Antwerp.

Halt Practice of Law.

Jewish and Socialist doctors are banned from Berlin hospitals, the same "undesirable element" are being excluded from the stock exchanges, and action has begun to bar them from the practice of law. Jewish educators, many of them with reputations, are being put out of the schools.

Dr. Lion Feuchtwanger, the novelist, has turned up in Switzerland which also harbors Otto Braun, the deposed Prussian Socialist premier. Other Jews who have forsaken Germany include Theodor Woliff, the editor; George Tietz, the Berlin merchant, and Prof. George Bernard, Bruno Walter, noted orchestra conductor, returned home from the United States to be banned from concert halls.

In the election two weeks ago, Socialists and Communists cast 12,000,000 of the 40,000,000 votes. Their leaders, who seek havens elsewhere, will undoubtedly prove a thorn in the sides of the Hitlerites, and the day may be here soon when Hitler's envoys travel abroad with heavy bodyguards.

If the history of past diasporas is repeated, there will be none of this activity for the Jews. They probably will merely settle down elsewhere, as they have done often before, and never seek to return.
History Unfolded Contributor: Jennifer R.
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