- Headline
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Protests Sent Reich by U.S. Over Violence
- Publication Date
- Thursday, March 9, 1933
- Historical Event
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American Citizens Attacked
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- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Washington—(AP)—The State Department disclosed today that protests have been made to the German government through Ambassador Sackett against reported indignities and violence involving American citizens.
In reply the German government expressed its keen regret and gave assurances that every measure w6uld be taken to prevent similar occurrences.
The cases were understood to have arisen from disorders in connection with, the recent election in which the National Socialist or Nazi Party, headed by Adolf Hitler, was given commanding power.
Four incidents were reported involving American citizens. The individuals named were Henry H. Sattler, Edwin F. Dakin, Nathaniel S. Wolff and Max Schussler.
Two distinct protests were made and after the second the German foreign office said the matter had been called to the personal attention of the chancellor and each member of his cabinet.
Three American citizens complained to the embassy at Berlin this week that their apartments had been entered without provocation by the auxiliary police.
The complainants were Henry H. Sattler of New York City, Edwin F. Dakin of Hannibal, Mo., and Nathaniel S. Wolff of Rochester. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Lael F.
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Bibliography
Dodd, William E., Jr. and Martha Dodd. Ambassador Dodd's diary, 1933-1938. New York: Harcourt, Brace, c1941.
Larsen, Erik. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. New York: Crown, c2011.
Metcalfe, Philip. 1933. New York: Perennial Library, 1989.
Nagorski, Andrew. Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazis Rise to Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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