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Headline: Nazis Told To Remember Discipline
Sub-Headline: Hitler Orders Storm Troopers to Refrain from Molesting Business Life and Prevent Attacks Upon Foreigners; Goering's Address Is Spirited

Publication Date: Saturday, March 11, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Staunton News-Leader/The Evening Leader
Location: Staunton, Virginia
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: Berlin, March 10.—(AP)—Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in an appeal to the German nation tonight, ordered his Nazi storm troops to remember their discipline, refrain from molesting business life, and to prevent any attacks upon foreigners in Germany.

Several complaints have been made at the American embassy in Berlin recently that Nazis had interfered with the rights of Americans. The American ambassador was assured that the rights of foreigners would be protected.

Not to Protect Jews
While the chancellor was making public his views his confidential man, Hermann Goering, minister without portfolio, told an audience in Essen that the police never would be used "as protective troops for Jewish merchants."

"The black, white, and red flag, bathed In blood, may yet wave over a liberated Germany as a sign that Nationalist Germany has found herself," Captain Goerlng said.

Since Monday, I have been bombarded by telephone calls and telegrams concerning the boycotting of Jewish stores. As police commissioner,,[sic] I refuse to let the police be protective troops for Jewish merchants."

Chancellor Hitler cautioned his followers to refrain from doing things which might enable historians to compare the "revolution of 1933 with the knapsack Spartious revolt of 1918."

"A gigantic evolution has taken place in Germany, the result of the heaviest fighting and most tenacious endurance but also of the highest discipline," he said.

"Conscienceless rascals, chiefly Communist provokers, are trying to compromise our party by individual deeds which have no connection with the great work of national resurrection but solely tend to blemish the achievements of our movement."
History Unfolded Contributor: Jennifer G.
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