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Headline: Hitler Strikes Again

Publication Date: Tuesday, September 17, 1935
Historical Event: Hitler Announces Nuremberg Race Laws
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Article Type: Editorial or Opinion Piece
Newspaper: (The) Wilmington Morning News
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Page Section and Number: 8
Author/Byline: --
Article Text: MAGISTRATE BRODSKY'S highly indiscreet reference to the Nazi Swastika emblem as a "pirate flag" brought him the rebuke he justly deserved in the note that Secretary of State Hull sent to the German government apologizing for the affair. But while the incident was unfortunate enough, the incidents that it has served to provoke have been more unfortunate still.

In his address at Nurnberg Sunday, Adolph Hitler used the ill-considered remark of the New York magistrate as an excuse to launch fresh repressive measures against the unfortunate German Jews. From now on the members of this race are to be put entirely beyond the legal and social pale. Jews are to continue as German subjects, but not as German citizens. Marriages between Jews and German citizens are banned; Jews are forbidden to employ German women as domestic servants unless they are more than 45 years old; Jews may not fly the German flag, but may fly the Zionist emblem of blue and white if they wish to mark themselves out for possible additional persecution. And the Nazi Swastika, which the magistrate is felt to have insulted, was raised to the status of the German national emblem.

If the incident proves anything, it shows that violent talk in this country by those in official or semi-official positions cannot help the German Jews and is more than likely to add to their miseries. Magistrate Brodsky has managed both to embarrass his own government and to make still heavier the lot of the persons with whom he sympathizes. The remedy for Nazism cannot come from without; it must come from a reawakening sense of decency and justice on the part of the German people themselves.
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