History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Rumor Nazis Plot Wholesale Massacre

Publication Date: Wednesday, March 1, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Burlington Free Press
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: BERLIN, March 1. (Wednesday) (AP)—Ash Wednesday dawned with a stillness today belying a tension which caused hundreds of the wildest and most fantastic rumors concerning the coming week-end, when Reichstag elections will be conducted.

Reports credited to vague "travelers fleeing from Germany" have been circulating in various European capitals, but, as far as is apparent, these rumors are not founded facts visible in Berlin.

By piecing together fragments of Nazi speeches, coupled with some of Minister Wilhelm Goering's recent orders, that the police should be ruthless with leftist elements, a ground can be possibly found for some of these rumors.

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The London Herald reported today that what it called an amazing Nazi plot had been formed in Germany to "carry out during the coming week-end the most staggering massacre the world has known."

The Herald said further: "A quarter million Nazi storm troops, including desperate characters over whom even Chancellor Adolf Hitler cannot exercise control, will, it is stated, invade large towns of Prussia and slaughter all progressive leaders and Jews of whom, both men and women, a long list already has been prepared."
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