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Headline: Nazis Order Boycott Of German Jews As 'Party Defense' Move

Publication Date: Wednesday, March 29, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Austin American
Location: Austin, Texas
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: BERLIN, March 28.—The spectre of a nationwide boycott against Jews hung sword-like over Germany Tuesday night with publication of extensive plans by Adolf Hitler's Nazi's to clamp down the lid on all Jewish business and professional activity at 10 a. m. April 1.

In 11 points the Nazi followers were advised how, why and when the boycott would be "inaugurated like a blow."

Unless the government prohibits it, no phase of Jewish life, judging from the proclamation issued at national socialist party headquarters in Munich, will be spared.

Jewish merchants, doctors and lawyers will be targets of the campaign as well as Jewish children, to whom the nazi pronunciamento would bar certain professions and even would prevent extensive attendance by Jewish children in the schools.

Publication of the boycott call came as a surprise, as the newspapers had insisted it would not be issued until anti-German utterance abroad had cooled down.

The release of the boycott announcement at 9 p. m. Tuesday indicated the left wing of the nazis had temporarily triumphed over the more moderate wing of Chancellor Hitler and Dr. Wilhelm Frick, minister of interior. Among the left leaders are included Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister; Hermann Goering, minister without portfolio, and Hans KerrI, president of the Russian diet.

Foreign Criticism
Tuesday night it was impossible to forecast whether the government would intervene.

Mass meetings held in foreign countries, it was said, have not made the lot of moderate members of the government easier, as modification of the boycott movement or its prohibition now might be construed as bowing to foreign pressure.

The call for the boycott was set forth in a long statement issued from nazi headquarters in Munich and entitled "for the defense of the nazi party against the atrocity propaganda."

Not 'Spare the Guilty'
The statement explained special committees will be formed In every nazi group to carry out the campaign plans systematically.

"These committees will see to it that the innocent do not suffer, but they must not spare the guilty," the manifesto said.

"The committees also are responsible for full protection of foreigners, without regard to religion or race. This boycott is a purely defensive measure against German Jews."
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