History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Not To Protect Stores of Jews
Sub-Headline: Protection For Americans And Other Foreigners Is Promised By Hitler

Publication Date: Saturday, March 11, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Greenville News
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: BERLIN, Mar. 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.)

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 Goering said.

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

The cabinet minister received prolonged cheers, particularly at his reference to disturbances in Jewish stores. In several communities Nazis have attempted recently to effect a boycott of Jewish merchants.
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