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Fatal Extermination Of Jews German Aim, Hitler Press Warns
- Sub-Headline
- Punishment by Sword To Result After They Are Starved Into Acts Of Crime, Paper Says
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, November 23, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- BERLIN, Nov. 22—Das Schwarz Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi stormtroops, tonight predicted the "actually fatal extermination" of Jews who persist in remaining in Germany and called upon the United States and Great Britain to save them from destruction.
The stormtroop organ, explaining that Jews must be driven into virtual ghettos "where they will have the least possible contact with Germans," lose all profitable occupation, and thereby be driven into crime, he said:
"When this stage is reached we would be faced with the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld by methods which we, in our orderly state, always use in dealing with criminals, namely fire and sword."
Calls For "Jewish State"
Das Schwarz Korps urged the democracies to make a positive contribution to the solution of the fate of Germany's 700,000 Jews.
"Only the creation of a Jew state outside Germany can save the German Jews from the destruction otherwise threatening them," it said.
"The United States and the British Empire are large enough to give room somewhere to the 20,000,000 Jews said to exist."
The organ denied that the Jewish faith had anything to do with German anti-Semitic measures. It said Jews must be forced to wear a "special emblem."
The article appeared as Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels called Nazi Party leaders into a secret session at the Kroll Opera House and laid down a program of intensified anti-semitism.
New Measures Planned
Information trickling from the supposedly secret gathering indicated measures for mobilizing nationwide resentment against Jewish sympathies in the United States and Britain.
It was revealed, simultaneously, that the United States had delivered a new note to the German government asking assurances that the new decrees driving Jews from business would not be applied to American citizens.
The American note was delivered by Prentiss B. Gilbert, American charge d'affaires.
U. S. Asks Assurances
The note expressed to the German foreign office the assumption of the U. S. Government that the recent decrees issued here excluding Jews from businesses would have no effect on the interests of American citizens. There are several hundred American Jews in Germany, including about 50 in Berlin.
In addition the note asked Germany to give assurances that this "assumption" was correct.
Goebbels, addressing 2,000 Nazi
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Bibliography
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.
Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.
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