July - September 1935
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July 5, 1935 page 1 _____ Nineteen People Severely Injured and Burned, Six Survivors. Among the Victims in the Collision Between the Two Aircraft Were Film Star Carlos Gardel and Famous Aviator Ernesto Samper, Who Were on the Tarmac. Bogata, Columbia. — At the Medellin Airport, about 200 miles northwest of Bogata, the worst aircraft accident to occur in the Americas so far happened as thousands of onlookers, mostly women, watched in horror. The crowd had assembled to cheer for Carlos Gardel, South America's new Valentino during his departure from Medellin. The well-known film and stage actor was on a triumphant tour throughout the continent and, along with various other passengers, was taking off in a SACO three-engine airliner. As the aircraft was attempting to take flight a sudden gust of wind caused it to swerve into another fully loaded plane preparing for takeoff. The two aircrafts collided and exploded. Besides Gardel, Ernesto Samper, Columbia's Lindbergh, was killed. Samper was one of the founders and directors of SACO Airlines. Also identified from remains were Henry Swartz of Philadelphia, a representative for Universal Films; Lester W. Strauss, a mining engineer from New York; Wm. Foster, a mechanic; pilots Hans Ulrich and Thom Fürst. The other victims of the accident were Argentinians and Columbians. The other aircraft belonged to SCADTA, one of the largest Columbian airline companies with German partners. Only six passengers, among them American Grant Flynn, who escaped the raging flames with more of less serious injuries. |
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July 5, 1935 page 1 _____ Vienna. — The mountain toen of Hall in the Austrian Alps has made Archduke Otto a fully-vested citizen of its community and has thus fulfilled a precondition which will enable his eventual takeover of the Austrian throne. The Archduke lost his rights of citizenship when his father, Emperor Karl, renounced the throne. Since that time the Archduke has been considered a "Fatherlandless Man," who was denied even a visitor's return to his native land if he didn't want to be arrested. Archduke Otto was given "honorary citizenship" by over 450 Austrian communities, however Hall was the only town to give him full citizenship. Hitler In Favor Of an Era of Understanding _____ Brighton, England. — In a brief telegram to the Brighton Branch of the British Legion Reich Führer Adolf Hitler expressed the heartfelt wish that the latest meeting of British and German war veterans may lead to an era of world understanding. Dr. Otto Peltzer Sentenced _____ Berlin. — Dr. Otto Peltzer, one of the best German middle distance runners who could successfully compete against Nurmi, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for crimes against moral decency. Robber Trio Caught _____ Flagstaff, Arizona. — It took a posse of cowboys and officers to capture a trio of bandits attempting to rob the Marble Canyon Lodge in Lee's Ferry. One of the fleeing desperados was shot in the arm during the chase. Key Brothers Land with a New World Record _____ Meridan, Miss. — A new world record for flight endurance was set by the Brothers Al and Fred Key, who after 27 days in the air, landed at 6:05 local time and not only broke an official record but also the unofficial sustained flight record. The brothers were in the air for 27 days, 5 hours, and 33 minutes. Brothers John and Kenneth Hunter formerly held the official record of 553 hours [23 days], 41 minutes, and 30 seconds in Chicago. Lust Murderer's Suicide Attempt Failed _____ Caption under picture reads: Alfred Volckmann, the young grocery seller who recently committed the bestial assault on 9-year-old pastor's daughter Helen Glenn, whose mutilated body was found in a swamp. Volckmann attempted to take his own life with poison and is seen in this picture in the hospital. With him are a doctor and a nurse. |
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July 5, 1935 page 3 _____ The World Is Armed To The Teeth _____ 4.9 Billion Dollars Spent Last Year For Armaments At the conclusion of the reporting period Russia's Red Army (without reserves, etc.) numbered 940,000 men, while at the end of 1933 it had 504,000 enlisted men and 30,300 officers in uniform. The Federal Army of the United States on June 30, 1934 totaled 137,679 men. When state militias and reserve troops are added, that number increases to 139,240. The U.S. Marines amounted to an effective strength, according to the Marine Corps reckoning, of 109,255 men. For 1934 Japan's land forces amounted to an estimated 299,824 enlisted men and 19,399 officers. The Yearbook reported its naval forces at 139,688 men. France had a total of over 550,678 soldiers, of whom 360,496 are stationed in the motherland. Based on early estimates on January 1, 1934 the German Reich Army had 102,000 men. Nothing more recent has been reported concerning new developments. Italy's regular army comes in with 390,000. Great Britain had — with the exception of Indian troops but including overall colonial and naval forces — 460,620 men under the flag. Worldwide warship tonnage measured 6.9 million tons in the previous year. The day before the Great War the weight was 5.83 million tons. Friends of Germany Fill Yugoslavia's Cabinet _____ In Favor of Abolishing the Dictatorship and Holding New Parliamentary Elections Belgrade, Serbia. — Former Finance Minister Milan Stojadinowitsch has formed a Cabinet in which he has taken over the office of Minister President and the position of Foreign Minister. The other important people in the new Cabinet are: General Peter Siwkowitsch as War Minister; Duschan Letticau as Finance Minister; Georg Sankowitsche and Dr. Mahmud Behmen as Ancillary Ministers. In parliamentary circles it's expected that Stajadinowitsche will dissolve the office of military dictator introduced by former King Alexander and initiate preparations for a new election of Parliament this Fall. The new Minister President was leader of the radical revolutionary group after the end of the War and attempted to work toward peaceful cooperation among the populations of the South Slavic Kingdom. A Balloon Ascends Ten Miles High _____ Moscow, Russia. — The Russian Stratosphere Balloon U.S.S.R. 1 B.F.S. undertook a two and a half hour flight during which, under the control of Kristoff Zille, it reached an altitude of 15,000 meters (52,165 feet.) The landing took place in an area near Tula, a village about 150 miles from Moscow. It is the same balloon, which on another occasion reached a record altitude of 19,000 meters. England Has Robot Aircraft _____ London. — The current British Air Ministry announced that England has a squadron of robot aircraft, which regularly perform target practice drills over land and sea. The aircraft run at an average speed of 100 miles and reach an altitude of 10,000 feet, however they can only be operated within a 10-mile radius of a radio control station. |
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July 5, 1935 page 4 _____ Thousands of People Took Part in a Picnic on Sunday. — The Arion Singers Delighted Them With Song _____ The annual picnic to support the Jewish Old Folks Home the took place last Sunday on the vast grounds of the Home, blessed with finest weather for visiting. More than 4000 people from the upper state region and of all faiths and races attended in truly "peaceful activities of all kinds." Members of the German community was also richly represented. The Arion Singing Society had received an invitation and helped enrich the day with a beautiful choral program. The singers, under the direction of Carl Altmann, performed quite well and the same could be said of the ladies' choir. Caption under photographs read: Mrs. Anna Heyderhoff, President of the Arion Ladies Choir.
Miss Isolde Altmann received accolades for her solo "Carmena Waltzer." Rabbi Benjamin Friedman opened the picnic with an adress in which he said, among other things, "I know of no better way to reflect the true spirit of America than to see men of various races and cultures united in the expression of good will and friendship." Mr. P.R. Heldmann, President of the United German Societies of Syracuse, held a well-thought-out and highly interesting speech, which climaxed with the following words: "The gathering has a deeply moral and social significance." A number of the songs and the speeches were broadcast over the radio. All possible sporting events and special entertainments, as well as music and dance, were offered and the refreshments left nothing for which to be desired. Our Jewish population is best known for this and even the singers of the Arion can attest to it. A first step has been made and this event has contributed to forging an amicable consensus of agreement. |
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July 12, 1935 page 4 _____ Its Attitude Concerning Swastika Flags. _____ (Sent In) _____ In recent days as chairman of the above-mentioned Alliance, I've often been asked about the new national insignia of the Third Reich. Regrettably there's deep division among the larger associations and alliances in the U.S.A. concerning it. It's not the first time that the local German community has laid its disunity out on the table. If the phrase "Unity Means Strength" is no longer acceptable by today's standards, feel free to set it alongside other contested sayings like "With God for Emperor and Empire". In the end, we must face the consequences. The more we show the local population that we agree to live in disunity, the more they rejoice in it. Our alliance, well aware of the developing trends since its founding, is convinced that only a neutral stance will make progess and survival possible. We made it our guiding principle that personal world views and religious beliefs should remain in one's private life. Only thoughts of genuine comradeship can keep us together and our common life experiences can span beyond our personal opinions. We, as willing citizens of this country, don't just have the right but the also duty to do this. Anyone who marches under the American flag is well aware that he lives under a liberal, democratic banner. We are not against the swastika, which is recognized by all as the insignia of the German Reich, and we respect and appreciate that under this symbol Adolf Hitler, the great German leader, has created a united German Empire. We veterans especially thank Adolf Hitler for pulling apart the flawed Versailles Treaty, and we hope that when he finishes with it, it will be completely cast aside. We, the Germans of this country, should esteem Adolf Hitler for requiring that other countries acknowledge the parity of the German Reich and for defending German honor, which so many attempted to drag through the mud. With radical change it's understandable that mistakes will be made, and it's my opinion that it's a great mistake to use the new German insignia as a symbol for doing battle against a particular race of people. Mistakes have been made here and there but they can be corrected if a universal reconciliation between people is explored. However it's also a great mistake not to come to an agreement with the democratic opinions of this country when certain circles want to force the current German government by boycotting German events. Such measures will not achieve results, just provoke more bad blood. These circles should mark down in the account books that they're not harming the German government but the German people, including people with opinions similar to their own. Whosoever in this country marches with the swastika as a symbol for conducting racial war runs the risk of damaging the Star Spangled Banner and its grounding principles. Anyone who knows the history of this flag should know that under the wing of the Star Spangled Banner all classes of humanity have found protection and refuge. Have we ourselves not come to the banner due to dire circumstances? Whoever wishes to serve two masters must in time decide to which master he will remain loyal. I personally commend the well-known German singing society "Arion" for having contributed to the beauty of the local Jewish Old Folks Home Picnic. Anyone who heard or read the words spoken by our beloved President of the United German Associations of Syracuse, Mr. P.R. Heldmann, as well as the words of highly esteemed Rabbi B. Friedmann, will acknowledge that in this country with its many races, there is no room for racial emnity. Our alliance stands by the colors of the black-white-red, the flag [of the old German Empire.] We stood for it, we fought for it, and hopefully there will come a time when the swastika is not a symbol for fighting but one for racial reconciliation in the best sense of the word and only in this sense will we be proud to place it near the Star Spangled Banner in equal status. — Eugene Ernst. |
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July 12, 1935 _____ Berlin. — From a telegram exchange between the The People's Alliance for German War Grave Care and Reich Chancellor Hitler it was learned that whereever in the world Germany's frontline soldiers fought and died for Germany's honor, memorials should be erected. This announcement was made this past Sunday during the dedication of a German war memorial for Palastinian soldiers in Nazareth. [Translator's Note: See https://kriegsgraeberstaetten.volksbund.de/en/military-cemetery/nazareth for details on the cemetery.] |
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July 19, 1935 page 2 _____ Preparation of one's own bomb shelter is the most important measure in the event of an air raid. The best arrangement naturally includes a safe room which assures against bombs and chemical agents. However the introduction of such a plan would cost too much money, thus one must suffice with a gas and splinter secure safe room. In general, there will be a cellar room on hand in which choice of location, size and accessibility as well as the thickness of the ceiling must be assessed. Almost always it's relatively easy, as Dr. Eduart Smolczyk of the Frankfurt weekly periodical Die Umschau explains, to locate a cellar room, which doesn't cost too much to convert into a bomb shelter. Doors and windows must be made leakproof and air-tight. Just as necessary are shovels, saws, filled sandbags, food supplies, water, emergency lighting and an emergency toilets. Naturally the size of the shelter is determined by the number of people who will take cover here. One can calculate that without causing physical distress, an adult person requires one cubic meter of air for every hour inside the shelter. A room 2.5 meters in height, four meters wide, and six meters long contains 60 cubic meters of air which could accommodate 20 people for three hours or thirty people for two hours. Now consider the conditions prevalent during an air attack. One must be prepared if the number of occupants exceeds the expected number. In that case a room ventilation system must be provided which can run by hand or electrical operation. Fresh air from outside is sucked in through a filter into the room. Air pressure in the room must equal outside pressure, so a venting which allows for the escape of carbon dioxide is needed. The more air taken in, the greater the amount of carbon dioxide which must be expelled in order to keep the room air breathable. Naturally one cannot let the air-flow rate rise arbitrarily because that would necessitate inconveniently large ventilation equipment and filters. Through trial and error the air-flow can be determined which will prevent a depletion of oxygen and an overabundance of carbon dioxide — at least 20 liters per person at rest per minute. Therefore good room ventilation must be delivered at a minimum of 20 liters pure air per minute per person. Miltenberg. — At the age of 76 years Senior Education Councillor Poiger has died. For a long time he directed the secondary school curriculum in Miltenberg. As Assistant Rector he began his employment in 1899, where he ran the Latin program. He vigorously devoted himself to the school's interests. On his initiative a larger school building was erected which housed the secodary school founded in 1865 and a business school program with six classes. Due to his service the Town of Miltenberg designated him an honored citizen upon his retirement from the school. For many years he belonged to the Lower Franconia District Council. Enos Wilson New Richest Indian _____ Thirty years ago a foundling left on a doorstep of an Oklahoma banker and cattleman, Enos Wilson, a member of the Creek Tribe, today is recognized as the "world's richest Indian." The title was previously held by Jackson Barnett, also a Creek Indian, who died at the age of 92 last year. Some say Barnett's death was hastened by the weight of domestic and government troubles, which beset him in his last days. Wilson, who made his "pile" in oil, lives in a stately mansion at Muskogee, Oklahoma. |
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July 19, 1935 page 3 Why are you shooting at the plants?
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July 19, 1935 page 4 _____ From Buffalo comes the report that the Buffalo Volksfreund, which has been published in the German language for almost 75 years, will cease publication. This leaves Buffalo without a German newspaper. A few years ago at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, there were three large, German, daily newspapers, which were among the best in the country — the Buffalo Freie Presse, the Buffalo Demokrat, and the Buffalo Volksfreund. The only daily German newspaper still in existence in the State of New York, except in for New York City, is the Rochester Abendpost. Once again another mainstay of German life, the German Press in America, has been severed. The Buffalo Volksfreund was one of two dozen German language daily newspapers still published in the United States. Before the War there were 750 daily, weekly, and monthly German language publications. Only 200 remain but they still represent the strongest number of foreign language periodicals in the country. Economic reasons were responsible for ceasing publication of the Buffalo Volksfreund, however the publisher did not wish to blame the German community by saying that the suspension of the German newspaper was solely due to the neglect of the German public of Buffalo. It's highly regrettable that in such a good German city as Buffalo no longer has one extant German newspaper. It will soon become clear to the involved parties that their influential binding agent has been torn away, that they no longer have a medium by which to exchange news of their associations. The result will be that one association after another will dissolve because of it. The German Press is an irreplacable and strong support of the German element in America. In any city where it existed it represented the German community and demonstrated its worth many times in irrefutable ways. During the long and difficult war years it attempted to defend the rights of the old fatherland, and when and wherever possible, it spared no effort during the post war years supporting the German people across the ocean. And yet it is the Germans themselves who do no know how the treasure this, until it is too late — what's happening now to the Buffalo Volksfreund can still happen to any other German newspaper if the German people don't wake up! [Translator's Note: See the August 9, 1935 article below for the article titled "Buffalo's German Community Will Retain Its German Newspaper."] |
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July 19, 1935 page 5 _____ German Instruction in Conjunction with Vacation Bible School _____ The Mt. Tabor Church's pastor, Rev. W.L. Scheding has developed a program which should stimulate great interest and participation among all German circles. In conjunction with its vacation bible school program the church will deliver German instruction on the following days: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays from 11 AM to 12 noon. Miss Ruth Scheding, a teacher at Roosevelt High School, has stated she is ready to deliver the German instruction. Here is an excellent opportunity for German parents to have their children receive instruction at no cost which will prove of tremendous worth in later years. Don't let parents hear from their children that they were never given the opportunity to learn or retain the German language. Simultaneously parents here are offered the opportunity to keep their children off the streets for a few hours each day and to know they are in good company. Let your children participate in German instruction at no cost. You owe it to yourselves and your children. Instruction begins next Monday. This innovative program is especially endorsed by the United German Associations (P.R. Heldmann, President), whose members will receive a special invitation to allow their children to attend German instruction at Mt. Tabor Church during the next meeting. |
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July 19, 1035 page 8 _____ The Nazi Press Mobilized Against It Berlin. — If the current National Socialist Regimes remainthen on its highly political course then all academic student associations with their colorful presence and traditions will soon be a part of the past. The "Verein Deutscher Studenten" [Association of German Students,] an all German and antisemitic society since its founding, from which an entire series of former leaders from Friedrich Naumann to Social Democrat Wolfgang Heine emerged, has zealously tried to prove its loyalty to the government. The decision of Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Shirach that no member of the Hitler Youth may belong to a academic fraternity in the future may be enforced by a resolution. Meanwhile the Reich's Press has introduced a campaign against student corporations which has definite political overtones. Not without reason, the influential Westdeutsche Beobachter emphasizes that academic associations were primarily for cementing together the offspring of the "old noble houses" and if the newspaper suggests that the old ruling class should be properly punished for its impropieties, so be it. NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers Party] Days 1935 _____ This Year's Party Days From September 10th Through 16th in Nuremberg _____ This year the NSDAP will hold its huge annual meeting in Nuremberg, the home of Reich Party Days from September 10th to the 16th. Among the series of events in the programm, the Führer will place the cornerstone for the gigantic new Congress Hall and thus begin the new construction on the Reich Party Day property in Nuremberg. The traditional parade grounds of the Storm Troopers, the Luitpold Arena, will be fully completed by the Reich Party opening day. This is a huge event which annually provides evidence to the German people and the world of the power and strength which anchors the National Socialist German Workers Party to the political leadership in Germany. This years hundreds of thousands of Party members will go to Nuremberg for hours of celebration. Dr. Elsenheimer Dead in the Homeland _____ From Limburg on the Lahn comes the sad news that during a visit to the old homeland conductor and composer Dr. Nicholas J. Elsenheimer of New York suddenly died. His wife, with whom he undertook the journey to Germany, stayed by his side at the hour of his death. For many years he was honorary president of the Association of German Choir Directors in America and was deemed one of the foremost German music conductors in the country. |
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July 19, 1935 page 8 Mail Aircraft Catapulted from Norddeutscher Lloyd Ocean Liner "Bremen" Makes Record Flight of 901 Miles _____ In a new record time of less than four days the mail from Europe to America was launched by catapult from the Norddeutschen Lloyd ocean liner "Bremen." Not ninety-six hours after the departure from Cherbourg in the late afternoon of June 29th, Count Schack von Wittenau delivered 160 pounds of mail to the American authorities on July 3rd at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. In a record flight of 901 miles in around nine hours with only a 15 minute break on Nantucket Island for refueling, the delivery was accelerated by over 26 hours since the ocean liner arrived at the pier despite a rapid velocity on July 4th at 4:20 in the afternoon. The great value of the German Catapult Mail Flight Service, also available all summer long through the ocean liner "Europa," is especially apparent since New York business houses and private individuals got their mail on the same afternoon even though delivery would have been delayed until Friday morning due to Independence Day. Plus countless firms used the opportunity to take a long weekend and closed on Friday and Saturday, so they received their air mail five days earlier. |
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July 26, 1935 page 1 ____ Previously the Falls Were Operated Privately Niagara Falls, N.Y. — The border city of Niagara Falls celebrated the 50th anniversary of the day on which private commercial ownership ceased and the State took over. Until 1885 people couldn't set eyes on any section of the Falls without viewing it being exploited by private businessmen. Premier Hepburn of Ontario attended the ceremony as an honored guest of the city, along with Australian Premier Lyons, who was visiting the United States. Before the official celebration Governor Lehman and Jesse Jones, the chairman of the Finance Reconstruction Corporation, held a dedication ceremony for two new bridges, which with the help of a government loan and with the financial support of New York State, were built to united Grand Island in the Niagara River and the Tonawandas with the southern region of the City of Niagara Falls. This will make two parks on the Island much more accessible to the public. |
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July 26, 1935 page 1 _____ Protest Rallies in New York — Boycott Against Germany Demanded in Congress _____ A plenum of information has surfaced, which indicates the ever growing antisemitism in the Reich. In Leipig Jews were banned from using the public baths. Newspapers in Berlin published reports on crimes, in which Jews played a prominent role. Streicher arrived at the schools in Berlin representing the National Socialist leadership and gave an explanation in conjunction with the newest actions put in place, as in Nuremberg, where an absolute division between Christians and Jews was carried out. In Magdeburg it was ordered that Jewish employers, who appeared in a Labor Dispute Court, could only be represented by an Aryan attorney. Many reports came in regarding troubles for Jews who entered into any relationship with Aryans. The National Association of Catholic Frontline Soldiers was disbanded by Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goering with the explanation that its members threatened the unity of the people. The Berlin General Vicar of the Catholic Church was identified as the author of a manifest in which Goering's decree against "Political Catholicism" was sharply criticized. In Pirmasens three Catholic boys, who wore uniforms which that very day had been banned, were arrested. In Karlsruhe Hitler Youth Leader Kemper called upon the Hitler Youth for all genuine boys and girls to withdraw from splintering Catholic organizations and join in unity with the German Hitler Youth Movement. Two adherents of the religious order "Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus" were severely in Berlin for serious transgressions against the foreign exchange regulations. The Minister President of Baden threatened the harshest measures against "Political Catholicism" and Dr. Ley stated that National Socialism will tolerate no other world view. In Berlin a synagogue was painted with antisemitic slogans, customers of Jewish pastry shops were photographed, Jews were chased out of public bath houses, and so the reports continue. In Washington Representative Celler demanded a stiff boycott against Germany as a punishment for the persecution of Catholics and Jews.*
In New York there was a protest demonstration by the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee condemning Jewish persecution in Germany. Speakers demanded that the State Department should collect data in Berlin concerning persecution.
Rumors that the Holy See in Rome will break diplomatic ties with Germany were denied in the Vatican Chancellery.
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* Translator's Note : See the New York Times article for details.
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July 26, 1935 page 1 _____ Attack by the Roman Observer Maintains that the Religion-Politics of the German Government Are Contrary to the Concordat. Antisemitic Demonstrations on Kurfurstendamm Boulevard in Berlin. Vatican City. — The current truce between the Vatican and National Socialist Germany came to an end when Pope Pius vehemently criticized the Religion Politics of Reich Führer Hitler in the official Vatican newspaper, the Roman Observer. It's known that numerous priests and nuns have been punished with prison terms for violation of the foreign exchange regulations since they smuggled money out of Germany. Furthermore the Holy See criticized Germany's Sterilization Laws, the Germany government's actions against Catholic Youth Organizations, and the alleged limiting of religious freedom. The Roman Observer stated, "For some time now, in defense of their Catholic dogma as is their moral and immutable right, the Catholics of Germany have endured difficult times. It has created a painful situation. It does not stand in agreement with assurances made by Mr. Hitler at the time of his government takeover. At that time he said he wanted to respect the Catholic Church and preserve the peace created by the Concordat. According to Dr. Frick, the Sterilization Law must be observed by every Catholic, even if it contradicts Church teaching. Minister Frick then took actions against Catholic youth organizations. According to the Concordat, priests and religion teachers shall in no way be hindered from publicly interpreting Church teachings. The Concordat guarantees the Church full preaching and teaching freedom as well as freedom of the Catholic Press. Berlin. — On Kurfürstendamm Boulevard recently there were evening antisemitic demonstrations prompted by reports that Jews had protested an antisemitic film at a filmhouse. In response National Socialists moved to the street where even today a large number of Jews still gather in elegant restaurants. Allegedly many Jews were pushed down and severely beaten. A few cafés were destroyed. Police reinforcements eventually restored order. This was concerning the Swedish film "Peterson and Bendel." Nazis had heard that Jews had protested in the theater against the film. Nazis assembled in front of the UFA Filmhouse carrying placards with the inscription "Out with the Jews." Many Jews were dragged out of the theater and onto the street. Other Jewish looking people were pulled out to the sidewalk and the terrasses. Those who fled were pelted with glasses and beer bottles. |
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July 26, 1935 page 2 _____ Jean Jacques Rousseau, a particularly passionate friend of the salad, in all seriousness advised that a wise government should introduce compulsory salad eating. Citizens, who would be nourished on such a harmless diet, would in his opinion not think of conducting bloody wars or revolutions. What would be cheaper and easier to secure the peace than a law demanding salad consumption? Incidentally, Rousseau also made the less factual comment that salad would be much more flavorful if prepared by the hands of a 15 to 18 year old girl. In these surprising comments the two philosophers are not alone as advocates for salads. From the times of Plautus and Aristophanes writers and philosophers have always praised salad-based diet. Plautus extolled the virtues of "cabbage with vinegar and salt" while Aristoxenos of Tarent thanked Mother Earth with heartfelt words for "green cake." A passage by Lucian reads that the Olympian gods' reference to nectar and ambrosia are nothing other than salad and that it may be reported that Hebe [Greek goddess of youth] might have taken too much of it. Even Baron Eugen Vaerst thought that salad was a diet of the gods. In his Gastrosophy (Gastrosophy or the Teachings of the Joys of the Table,) the philosophy of salad makes up a large chapter, Vaerst stated that gastrosophy could already be discerned from the story of creation. "When we find," he wrote, "how on the third day of creation the Lord willed that the earth be occupied with plants and herbs of all varieties, and remarkably enough on the same day, how could the Lord not see, that it was good?" These words take on extreme significance. How could it not be good that not only they were the easiest and the most healthy but also the only human nourishment intended for the beings about to be created? "Salad was the food of paradise. The most horrorible acts of murder and fratricide first had to happen, then the Great Flood had to disperse the cast-out human race, before Noah received permission to eat flesh and everything that lived and flourished. The cleanliness and moderation of the Pythoageans and vegetarian Hindus, who shuttered at the mere smell of flesh and blood, were seen as attempts at a better approach to a higher plateau of existence." The Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Maria Molza praised the first man, Adam, as the inventor of salads. He composed a long poem in which he revealed this opinion and maintained that bestowal of laurel and myrtle should cease in favor of salad. Truly happy was anyone who switched to salads! Even Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, the Man of LaManchs, belonged among the poetic salad lovers. He didn't shy away from paying homage just to his Dulcinea but also to the vegetarian diet. Perhaps it was more the spirit of his ever-happy-to-be-eating squire, Sancho Panza, who extolled the praises of a vegetarian diet for him. And yet even those who see less of a philosophical examination or poetic effusion about salads than a practical application to their diet, Vaerst's Gastrosophy discloses the secret for the proper preparation of a salad. The following recipe is recommended. Every good-tasting salad has four components: a smattering of good oil, a touch of vinegar, a pinch of salt, and a jester to toss it." The most profitable fishing hauls in Japanese waters are made after meticulous surveillance at times of earthquakes. |
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July 26, 1935 page 2 _____ James C. MacDonald Announces the Results of Two Years of Study London. — James C. MacDonald from New York, who was commissioned by the League of Nations to perform a thorough study of Jews and refugees driven out of Germany, has just announced the results of his two years of investigation. In total 80,500 refugees have left Germany and tried to find a new home in the rest of the world. 27,000 migrated to Palestine, 10,000 went to France; 6,000 to the United States; 4,000 to Holland; 3,000 to South America; 2,500 to England; and the remainder to other countries. 18,000 returned to their original homelands in Central and Eastern Europe, and around 15,000 have yet to find a new home. The report explained that among the 80,500 refugees, over 5,000 people have been assigned full foreign assistance. Half of these destitute individuals are not of Jewish descent. MacDonald further clarified that to this point 10 Million Dollars has been collected for political refugees, of which 3 million came from American Jews and 2.5 million from the English. He praised the assistance of the Jews, the Quakers and the Rockefeller Foundation and warned refugees not to return to Germany since in this case they would immediately be put in so-called "Education Camps." The expert of the League of Nations also maintained that migration in Germany is still underway and within the last few months around 40 university professors were dismissed from their posts. _____ Translator's Note: See Greg Burgess' 2018 book The League of Nations and the Refugees from Nazi Germany : James G. McDonald and Hilter's Victims. The figures provided above can be found at PDF page 162, Table 10.2 (page 146 of the imaged text.) |
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July 26, 1935 page 7 — Who is it? "Is that you on the phone, Miss Brigitte?
— At the Dentist's Office. "At first the dentist was supposed to pull one tooth, but then he pulled two!"
— Knows how to help himself. Meyer plays skat. He plays it mornings, noons, and nights. Sometimes, when he is on a trip and can't find two or three other players, he's in danger of falling into depression. But things didn't go that far. Recently he was in Berlin and he sat down at a table in a waiting room. There were two men already there. Meyer pulled the cards out of his pocket, shuffled and dealt them to himself and the two other men. Then he asked, "Gentlemen, do you mind if I play along with you?" |
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July 26, 1935 page 8 _____ Berlin, — The Stahlhelm throughout all of Thuringia and the greater part of Silesia has been closed down by the Secret State Police (Gestapo.) Many leaders of the Thuringian Stahlhelm were taken to the concentration camp in Bad Sulza. The Stahlhelm, bearing the official name of "Bund deutscher Frontsoldaten" (Alliance of German Frontline Soldiers) is accused of having made derogatory remarks about the newspapers of the National Socialist Party. Furthermore the Alliance allegedly circulated rumors about state authorities, which were intended to damage the public's perception of these authorities. With what these observations and rumors specifically deal is, as yet, unknown. |
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August 2, 1935 page 1 _____ Communists Rip German Flag off the "Bremen" and Throw It Into the Water — Mayor Denies Business License to German Masseur — Reich Registers Protest in Washington — German Mass Assembly Against Unjust Practices _____ Truly unpleasant events have occureed in the State of New York whereby the German and American governments have become involved. The departure of the "Bremen" was delayed several hours on Saturday after midnight when Communists succeeded in coming onboard as passengers, where they ripped a flag from the bow of the ship. As they allegedly left the steamer, hundreds of other Communnists, who assembled on the pier, managed to board the ship. A police contingent of 275 men restored order after two shots had been fired, One Communist was severely wounded; ten others received minor injuries. Among those arrested there were three Jewish American seamen, who had come onboard the "Bremen" to protest against the practice that seamen of the Jewish religion were supposedly not being employed. In reference with this incident, the official State Secretary remarked that it was regrettable that private individuals should disrespect the flag of a nation with which the United States is at peace. The German government has already lodged a formal protest against the tearing away of the Swastika flag from the "Bremen" by the Communists. A note was sent by the German Ambassador following instructions from Berlin to the State Department. The note indicated that there was not enough police protestion in place to stop the Communists from boarding the ship. In addition, hope was expressed that in the future German ships will receive ample protection. The German protest resulted despite the fact that the State Department had already called the incident "regrettable." Steps have already been put in place to protect the German flags in the harbor of New York. With the arrival of the German steamship "Westernland" from the Red Star Line there was a strong police contingent at Hoboken Pier so that the 147 passengers could disembard unmolested. Even the German Consul General was watched. The steamer "Deutschland" of the Hamburg- America Line was able to arrive yesterday morning from its voyage to Germany undisturbed. Throughout New York and beyond, Germans and especially German associations, have leveled strong and well-organized protest against Mayor LaGuardia, who refused to give a license to a German masseur. The Steuben Society of America, the United German Alliances, including Plattdeutsch (Low German) groups and other German homeland associations and German Folk organizations have spoken out clearly, leaving nothing unsaid. Mayor LaGuardia believed he was justified since even the State Department had proof in hand concerning the mistreatment of Americans in Germany. In this case the Courts may be called upon. The Mayor seems to have tried to make matters good again since he's already appointed a German with naturalized American citizenship to membership in the City Arts Commission. Large protest demonstrations against the Mayor of New York, who distributes city business and trade licenses to residents who are citizens of the German Reich, are occurring daily in the metropolis. A notice will be sent today from Washington to the German government promising that those responsible for tearing up the flag from the "Bremen" will be indicted. This had been demanded in the German diplomatic note to Washington. |
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August 2, 1935 page 1 _____ Reconciliatory Steps Needed to Amend Public Opinion Abroad — Confidence Vote By the German People Should Give the Government Strong Support _____ There have been reports from authoratative sources that the German government is considering rescinding certain decrees regarding the disciplinary actions taken against individual Catholic priests and the dissolution of various groups of Stahlhelm units, as well as those against the recently rioting Jews of Kurfürstendamm, which have been represented in the foreign press as outright persecution of these three groups. From his vacation home in Berchtesgaden Reich Führer Adolf Hitler conducted a conference with War Minister General Werner von Blomberg, Wilhelm Goering, the Chief of the Secret Police, and various other leading individuals, who may have contemplated the holding of a general election, which should clearly indicate the confidence of the population in the steps taken by the government. After the harsh actions following the antisemitic provocations of Julius Streicher, there will now be a police campaign against all private violent clashes against Jews and "reactionaries." In addition, the issue of approving people with only two Jewish grandparents for military service will be addressed, which must be interpreted as an easing of the campaign against non-aryans. At the same time it would legislate the removal of plaques reading "Don't Buy from Jews." After considering foreign opinion, especially that of England, whose friendship will be useful whenever possible, the report of Joachim von Ribbentrop, special envoy to London and Reich Bank President Hjalmar Schacht was read . In it there was a particular red flag concerning the bad interpretation of recent events in Germany expressed among foreign veterans. Since nobody wants to further endanger the success of the Olympics in 1936, there are promises to insure the best propaganda and a considerable increase in tourism via an official policy against excessive negative reports and their causes as well as a decline in radical procedures. |
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August 2, 1935 page 2 _____ Entered the Country Illegally, Lost His Child, and Saw His Wife Die. Palisades Interstate Park, N.J. — The thirty-four-year-old German national George Umbach, who in March 1934 came to the United States on a visitor's Visa and lost his wife and child, will probably be deported by police. Umbach, who took an unpaid job as a house caretaker and lived in the basement, had married Miss Ottilie Stufmann, the daughter of a professor at Hamburg University in September the previous year, a day after his arrival in New York. When her child died, her father offered to send her money to travel back home, provided she come without her husband. She declined the offer and stayed with her husband. Marlene Dietrich, who knew Umbach back in Germany, sent $100 for the child's burial. In Spring Umbach lost his job and moved with his wife to State Park, where they resided in a meager tent located on a cliff overlooking the Hudson River and eked out a miserable existence. Last week as the torrential rains occurred they had to look for a sturdier abode and settled in a watermain pipeline. A cloudburst last Saturday suddenly filled the pipe with water, according to what Umbach told the police. He was able to get himself to safety but his wife was trapped inside and only with the help of two men was the young woman's body extracted from the water. Police and immigration officials are holding Umbach, who as an illegal immigrant will probably be deported. |
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August 2, 1935 page 3 — Gloomy Prospects. "Hopefully you haven't forgotten that you owe me ten dollars!"
— Regret Later. "Women think they understand everything!"
— Too Dangerous. Mr. Krause, who wants to get a life insurance policy, first must answer a few questions.
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August 2, 1935 page 8 Heiress' Flood Death Puzzle Caption under pictures reads: George Umbach (inset), penniless carpenter and his heiress wife Ottilie, who left riches and home in Germany to share his poverty, were reduced to living in large drainpipe (right), at Ft. Lee N.J., when flood suddenly swept Mrs. Umback to death against screen (arrow) |
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August 9, 1935 page 1 _____ Berlin, August 8th. — The official weekly newspaper of the Stahlhelm, which carries the same name, was officially stiffled today by the government. Additionaly the Deutsche Jugendkraft (German Youth Power), the periodical of the Catholic youth organization, was dissolved. |
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August 9, 1935 page 3 Caption under photograph reads: William Disque, Chairman of the German Day Celebration. [The celebration held on August 10th in Syracuse, N.Y.] NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) Day 1935 _____ This Year's Reich Party Days of September 10th through 16th in Nuremberg _____ This year the NSDAP will hold its huge annual meeting in Nuremberg, the city of the Reich Party Days from September 10th through 16th. As part of the Reich Party Days, whose program is still in the planning stage, the Führer will lay the cornerstone for the building of the gigantic new Congress Hall and thus set the groundwork for further new construction in Nuremberg. The traditional marching grounds of the Storm Troopers, the Luitpoldarena, is projected to be completed in its new form by Party Days. The massive, annual events of Party Days prove to the German people and the world the power and strength of the NSDAP's connection to the political leadership in Germany and this year bring hundreds of thousands of Party members for hours of celebration in Nuremberg. |
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August 9, 1935 page 3 ______ The old, truly hospitable drinking establishments and inns are currently making a return to glory after nearly fading away from memory for some time while competing with large, modern restaurants. Many old taverns had to be renovated over the years, but nothing prepares the wanderer for such great happiness as when he discovers such an inn in a remote city which has a centuries-old history. Plus some of these old, well-known historic inns knew how to retain their grand façades so that whenever one intends to see the sightworthy destinations in a city, he does not fail to look at these inns not just from their exterior but also from their interior. Many of them look back on a four to five-hundred-year lifespans. Thus the venerable "Stachel" inn in Wurzburg served for nearly five hundred years as the locale for the honorable mayor, and the famous wood carver Tilman Riemenschneider, and the leaders of the rebelling farmers. Martin Luther frequented "Auerbachs Keller" in Leipzig, although the locale's fame first was established by the young student Goethe's stay and the author's description of it in "Faust." In the impressive vaulted cellar roof of Königsberg Castle the age-old wine hall "Zum Blutgericht" (At the People's Court) has preserved its noble bearing. Everyone in Frankfurt am Main knows the world-famous tavern "Zum Krokodil" (The Crocodile.) Gustav Adolf von Schweden lived at the "Hohen Lilie" (High Lily) in Erfurt when he remained there during the Thirty Years War and dating back to the same time period the "Gosenschenke" (Gose Beer Tavern operated in Eutritzsch near Leipzig. Anyone going to Heidelberg will certainly visit the "Ritter" (Knight) at the old "Heiliggeistkirche" (Church of the Holy Spirit.) Another drinking establishment which to this day has not lost its reputation is the "Schweidnitzer Keller" in Breslau. It is located in the cellar of the magnificent Town Hall. The city chronical talks about this restaurant at the beginning of the 14th Century as serving very good wine at 28 Heller (15 Pfennigs) per quart. The "Bremer Ratskeller" (Bremen's Council Cellar) had a wine house which was idealized in song, and the Ratskeller in Lübeck is no less ancient and revered. Fairytale author Hermann Allmers of Bremen wrote a song about the Bremen Ratskeller: "For hundreds upon hundreds of years, generations to excess drank German wine here. You too must pay homage and raise your cup, just like the city fathers, so try to keep up! |
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August 9, 1935 page 8 _____ A Fire Broke Out Due to a Short Circuit in Bremen Harbor Bremen. — A fire broke out in the engine room of motorized sailing yacht "Mopelia," which belongs to Count Felix v. Luckner. The fire was caused by a short circuit. The "Mopelia" is the former "Vaterland," with which Count Luckner laid at anchor for a long time in Los Angeles and San Francisco while he contemplated undertaking a world tour. The endeavor had to be abandoned due to lack of funding. The "Vaterland" was rebuilt and named for the island on which the "Seeadler" was stranded by privateers. Of the 14 people onboard, no one was injured. _____ [Translator's note: See the following articles on Count Luckner for more info on this interesting character:
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August 9, 1935 page 8 _____ Volksfreund Will Be Published Twice a Week From Now On _____ Through the intervention of Valentin J. Peter, publisher of a series of German weekly newspapers including the Baltimore Correspondent which, by the way, will go back to being a daily newspaper on November 3rd, the German community of Buffalo will retain the Buffalo Volksfreund. The paper, which has been in operation for 65 years, recently announced that it would cease publication. Buffalo's Germans recognized in the moment it lost its newspaper just how important it was to have a German newspaper, and it was probably due to the call to action by Valentin J. Peters to all interested parties of the need to support this new enterprise so that it can return to being a daily newspaper as quickly as possible. In his rally cry, Mr. Peter explained that the support of German newspapers in this country is of deep-rooted interest for the German community because through the German daily press a binding agent is established between all classes of the German population and it supports German character and ability and achieves for us a particular place in our beloved America, which is not only advantageous but also valuable over time. |
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August 9, 1935 page 16 _____ Undoubtedly this year's celebration of German Day and the opening parade will be the greatest event in the history of the United Singers of Buffalo since the World War took away any initiative for German-Americans to reume this day of honor, according to reports coming out of the "City of Buffalos." The celebration day is on Sunday, August 11th in Genesee Park, to which all the Germans of the city are invited. |
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August 16, 1935 page 1 _____ People Warned Against Religious Agitation — Communist Sentenced to Death — Berlin. — The current campaign against politically organized religion, reactionaries, Jews, and Communists, which was announced by Reich Minister Goebbels in his latest speech, has begun. Posters were installed everywhere warning the population against Catholic agitation, which "looks like a lamb but is actually a ravaging wolf." At the same time a number of Jews were arrested in expansion of the ban on marriage to Aryans due to racial contamination. Albert Kayser, former Communist representative in the Reichstag was sentenced to death for high treason. He had been taken into custody a long time ago and had promised not to seek any political post in the future. However despite this promise he worked zealously on Communist propaganda and labor class agitation after his release. The step taken by Field Marshal General August v. Mackensen in the Stahlhelm Crisis caused much grief since it essentially gave the signal for the dissolution of the Alliance of Frontline Soldiers. In a letter Mackensen stated that he was laying down his honorary membership in the Alliance, which he had accepted upon its founding, because the goal of the Stahlhelm had been achieved with the reintroduction of compulsory military service. He added that in the interest of unity such organizations should only exist in the Reich which follow the proscribed goals of the Füh.rer. Every former German Frontline Soldier should take an active role in the best means of reconstruction for the Fatherland. Foreign reporters are attempting to create the impression that the expulsion of various correspondents and that the silencing of other factions of the German government are not just indications of a return to false news and boasting but rather a dubious attempt to insure Germany's hosting of the Olympics, from which people expect great financial gain. Castle Gandolfo, Italy. — From his summer home Pope Pius XI requested the Catholics of Germany maintain steadfastness and loyal allegiance to their Church. At the same time he warned against all attempts to replace Christianity with a modernized heathenry. |
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August 16, 1935 page 1 _____ Solingen. — The currently vacant home of Adolf Hitler's youth on Burgstrasse was damaged by vandals, who demolished all the furnishings and scawled inscriptions on the walls, among which was the following: "We're taking revenge on the Sturmschar" (Storm Trooper Squad.) The Storm Troopers office, which was located in the same house, was also damaged and the entire collection of documents and maps were scattered all over the floor. |
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August 23, 1935 page 1 _____ Reconciliation Attempt Between the Two German-Speaking Countries — Jews Already Feel Abandonned to an Uncertain Fate Vienna. — Just few days ago the Austrian government announced in its tightly controlled press news concerning major Italian maneuvers along the Brenner Pass and viewed it as an indication that Mussolini had decided not to let his war plans in Africa hinder his protection of Austria from its big brother to the north. If one can believe certain journalistic voices, one entity in particular is suddenly picked to gain Germany's friendship. Other signs indicate the same since efforts are in the works to end the two-year feud between these two German-speaking countries, which reached its peak during the July 25, 1934 attempted coup by the National Socialists in Vienna and the murder of former Federal President Dollfuss. The explanation seems mostly based on Austria having lost faith in the validness of the Danube Pact under Italian and French auspices. The semi-official Wiener Zeitung has taken up the statement of the Berlin Bösenzeiting (Stock Exchange Newspaper) that Austria need not fear an invasion by the German Army. This indicates there's probably an assurance from the Reich government which might well be the basis for negotiations between both nations. In that case as a stipulation, Austria might have to dissolve the Austrian Legion as well as the Austrian Benevolent Alliance in the Reich. Additionally this would mean that the Reich government would be willing to let the Hapsburg Dynasty reassume the Austrian Throne. This is the primary stipulation by the Austrian legitimists for reconciliation with the Reich. It follows that if the Reich supports the Hapburgs, the Little Entente will have to give up its opposition to the return of the Hapsburg Dynasty. On Germany's side there shall be full amnesty for all political trespasses. The German Ambassador to Vienna, former Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, shall stand behind the reconciliation attempt, which will also bring about new reorganization of trade relationhips between both countries. The fact that the Austrians have frequently been seen lately raising the Swastika Flag without the authorities confiscating them gives a sign that reconciliation has already begun in earnest. |
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August 23, 1935 page 1 _____ Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Who Crashed in Alaska _____ The world went into mourning on Saturday when the news came that Will Rogers, America's rustic humorist, and Wiley Post, one of the most successful pilots in the United States, were killed on the spot when Post's new airplane crashed and shattered to pieces just a few miles north from a settlement in North America. Post lost control of his machine about 50 feet above the ground. The aircraft lost balance and bored nose first into a riverbank, The powerful motor of the plane was pushed into the cockpit and killed Post and Rogers, the only two passengers. While the tragedy in Alaska elicited public declarations of sympathy from all over the globe, recovering the bodies of the dead was a major problem, which luckily was solved by the friend and pilot of the two victims, Joe Crosson, who flew the corpses to their final destination during an extremely dangerous flight. Rogers' funeral took place in a strightforward manner, like the man himself, yet memorial services occurred everywhere in grand fashion. In the movie colonies all doors were closed as a sign of the love and esteem for the victim, who left behind a grieving widow, a daughter, and two sons. At just about the same time Wiley Post was buried in Oklahoma. What thoughts Will Rogers entertained concerning life and death come in a letter he wrote to his old friend, Chas M. Russell, who had already died a few years earlier, and which was later published in Russell's book, Trails Plowed Under. Rogers engaged in friendly banter in the letter to his longtime friend, which was used in the introduction to the book: "There's not much of anything new to report over here. The Big Boss sent for you, Charlie. I believe he had need again of a good man, but I hear there's a shortage of them everywhere. Today the good ones are always in short supply. I believe you would have immediately grabbed your pencil and started scribbling something, just as Mark Twain and the other jokesters would have expected of you." Rogers Left Behind an Enormous Fortune ___ Estimated Between 2½ to 6 Million Dollars _____ Hollywood. — Will Rogers left behind a fortune, which unofficially was estimated between $2,500,000 and $6,000,000. His financial and business advisors indicated that his assets were extensively in properties in California and Oklamhoma, in government bonds, with life insurance in excess of $1,050,000, and annual royalties from film, radio and newspaper contracts of over $600,000. Insurance Broker John F. Kemp of New York revealed that Will Rogers established a policy of over $800,000 for his wife, Mrs. Betty Blake Rogers as single beneficiary. In the event of her death the sum would fall to their three children. The Cost of Preparedness _____ $6.35 per Capita of Our Population _____ Washington. — Allocations and additional funding for the Army and Navy in 1936 show the total armaments expenditure for the United States at an average of $6.35 per capita of the U.S. population. Total alloments have reached the sum of $806,446,826. Apart from the rising cost of living, allotments are included for building new ships and aircraft, for the creation of new and improved armaments and weaponry, as well as for personnel increases. Naval personnel will increase by 10,000 to 92,500 and Army personnel will increase by 118,750 to 165,000. |
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August 23, 1935 page 7 _____ The German Press Service has issued the following information concerning the Cost of Living in Germany: In the search for symptoms which should allegedly point to a catastrophic decline in the economy in Germany, clever critics have arrived at a truly effective method. They claim to have learned from German experts and publicists that, for example, since the beginnng of 1935 the cost of living in Germany has risen by a solid third. When they were expressly asked for the source of the claim, they hid behind the guise of "guaranteed discretion." This certainly did not provide proof for the accuracy of the claim, but then again, it did not disprove it either. After careful statistical calculations, it was found that in all major industrial nations, with the exception of Japan, the cost of living from the beginning of 1931 to mid 1935 had sunken significantly. Taking the cost of living figures from the beginning of 1931 as the baseline, the cost of living in the middle of 1935 was from 3 to 28 percent lower in the individual nations. Only in Japan did the cost of living rise to around 7 percent. The cost of living dropped the least to a level of 3 percent in Sweden and Austria. Next came Czechoslovakia at 5 percent, Great Britain at 8 percent, and the United States of America at 9 percent. The remaining industrial nations statistically pointed to a sinking of the cost of living by more than 10 percent. Those other nations are: Holland at 12 percent; Germany at 13 percent; France at 16 percent; Switzerland at 18 percent; Belgium (according to its recent currency devaluation) at around 25 percent. The sharpest sinking of the cost of living, 28 percent, was experienced by Poland. The lowest point in the cost of living in many nations did not occur in mid 1935 but rather in the years 1933 and 1934. For Germany the lowest point occurred in the beginning of 1933 at 83 percent. When the cost of living during this period rose by 4 percent, the primary reason for the restoration of profitability followed agrarian policy initiatives introduced with the inauguration of the Hitler government. In Great Britain the lowest point in the cost of living occurred in the middle of 1933. The German Press The newspaper is a genuine advisor to our German-American community and an instructor of the German language. Everyone who considers himself a German-American should participate in advancing the interests of the German Press. |
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August 30. 1935 page 1 _____ Berlin, August 28th. — Reich Finance Minister Graf Schwerin von Krosigk has stated that the lack of German colonies may be one of the many reasons for the decline of Germany since the end of the World War. He explained that Adolf Hitler will expedite colonial expansion to carry out his public policy. It may be one of the historic missions of Hitler to revive a dying German by reestablishing a strong army in the Reich while at the same time setting a new goal in public policy. Japan is the best example for what Germany should do. One assumes that Hitler will introduce the need for colonies soon while referring to the Reich's large surplus population. This requirement is contained in the Hitler Policy even if until now it has not been publicly announced for political reasons by Hitler. Return of the colonies is also above all else a prestige issue for Germany and the propaganda for it has never been set in place. Germany also needs colonies due to the lack of raw materials in its own nation. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Bank President and Reich Economic Minister Count Schwerin von Krosigk have repeatedly emphasized the necessity of colonies for Germany. |
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August 30, 1935 page 5 _____ Berlin. — According to a recently published communiqué in Marine-Verordungsblatt [Marine Ministerial Bulletin], two of the submarines built for the German Reich's flotilla program, the U-1 and U-17, have been placed in service. The same can be stated for the dispatch vessel "Grille" while the artillery training ship "Brummer" and the escort boats "F-1", "F-2", "F-3" and "F-4" have just been launched. Catholic Central Union of America Condemns the "Brutality of the Nazi Government" La Crosse, Wisconsin. — Shortly before the conclusion of its 80th Annual Convention, the Catholic Central Union of America, the representative union of the clergy to the laity of German Catholic populations of the United States, adopted a resolution without discussion condemning, with the harshest wording, the "brutality of the Nazi government in Germany committed against Catholic priests and religious orders." |
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August 30, 1935 page 3 _____ Hjalmar Schacht's Speech Censored _____ Protest Against Radical Antisemitism Silenced — The Press Ordered by the Propaganda Ministry to Print Only Schacht's Bond Propaganda — A Comparison with Papen's Magdeburg Speech Berlin. — A very important part in the Köigsberg Speech of Reich Finance Minister Dr. Schacht was withheld from the German people by the German Press, namely the portion dealing with radical antisemitism and its excesses. Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels has censored Schacht's speech. In that section of Schacht's speech, which was communicated by the official Press Service, content was confined to innocuous themes, thus replacing it with encouraging words to the German saver to regularly purchase Reich Bonds in order to finance future "employment campaigns." However Schacht's protest "against the lack of discipline" in heroic contemporaries, who by "aimless individual actions create chaos in the supersensitive German economy." Schacht did not speak against the antisemitic course of German legislation, but he referred to the outrageous harshness of the antisemitism in the streets, and that baffled the leadership circles of the Party. The Propaganda Ministry's censorship of the speech is one of the symptoms of a definite disgruntlement. Foreign newspaper correspondents recalled the audacious speech of Franz von Papen, the former Vice-Chancellor. He spoke directly about the bloody "cleansing action" of June 30, 1934. Attentive observers are of the opinion that as economist and financial politician Schacht had spoken with no less candor and civil courage as Papen when he was a politican. Two coworkers of Papen were among the politicians forced out of the way on June 30th. Papen himself was a day and night prisoner in his villa after June 30th and it was reported that it took Hindenburg's decisive intervention to save him from a dreadful fate. Before the Nazis' seizure of power Schacht was vigorously opposed by many of today's powerful advocates for the National Socilalist Party. At that time Alfred Rosenberg called him "Chaim Schachtl." Adolf Hitler Tours the Party Day Grounds _____ Nuremberg. — Chancellor Hitler toured the entire Reich Party Day grounds and in particular he inspected the construction of the new Zeppelin field, the "Luitpoldhain." Afterwards the Führer conferred with a group of leading Party members concerning the program for the coming Reich Party Day including Dr. Goebbels, Darré, Frank, Kerrl; National Leaders Dr. Dietrich Rosenberg, Amann, Borman; Reich Labor Leader Hierl; District Leaders Streicher, Wagner, Forster; Inspector General of German Highway Engineering Dr. Todt and First Mayor Liebel of Nuremberg. Potsdam Church Celebrates Jublilee _____ Potsdam. — The grand Potsdam Garrison Church celebrated its two hundredth anniversary with a special church service. In his address the military chaplain commemorated the church's history and showed how it left its mark in the heart of every German. He spoke about the burial vault beneath the pulpit where Prussia's greatest king rested; about the hallowed flags under which countless regiments were led into battle, victory, and death; and about the glorious day in Potsdam when this site became a pilgrimage destination for the German people. |
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August 30, 1935 page 3 — Gee, thanks. Uncle Theodore came to visit for a couple days. Upon leaving he gave his nephew a ten dollar bill. "Now pay attention," his uncle warned, "and always remember, a fool and his money are soon parted!"
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September 6, 1935 page 1 _____ Swiss Woman Stands Up at an Anti-Nazi Assembly to Justify German Politics Williamstown, Massachusetts. — At an assembly of over 500 people at Williams College held under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, which wanted to ameliorate the relationship between the individual groups of the population in the United States, one of the women in attendance stood up in defense of the New Germany. An editor, a Protestant cleric, and Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron had just spoken about all the bad things occurring under the National Socialist government in Germany when the woman asked the chairman, Newton D. Baker, to let her speak. With quiet, impactful words, she told those present that the German people would be a hundred times more willing to subjugate itself to its own government than that of the Entente. The developments, which took place in the United States 160 and 70 years ago, were a mirror image of events taking place in Germany today. In 1776 the entire American populace raised up against the English yoke and it was ready to pay any price. In 1865 it was then necessary to perform a major cleansing in the United States. Exactly the same developments are happening in rapid succession. The antisemitic mood in the Reich may be for a large part based on the conduct of the Jews before Hitler's coming to power. They boisterously pushed their way into the foreground, gained attention everywhere, and fomented hatred. The majority of Protestant clerics expounded insincere sermons on performative piety. They believed their religious tenets were righteous but no one ever achieved true salvation of the soul through Jesus since they had never really been saved. Catholic clerics, on the other hand, misused their office for politically subversive activities and for the execution of the selfish goals of the Catholic Central Party. The bold defender of the New Germany, a Swiss native, gave her name as Mrs. Schirmacher-Oncken of Bern. After the usual course of five minutes she was interrupted, but then continued her address at the wish of Lazarons and others present. _____ [Translator's Note. Google AI Overview accessed 9.22.2026 4:30 PM:
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September 6, 1935 page 1 _____ Gang Leader Indicates Business Manager Was Instigator of the Deed London, Ontario, Canada. — The business manager of Labatt Brewing, Louis McCaughey, was dismissed from his job after Michael (Three Fingers Abe) McCardell said he was the instigator of the kidnapping of rich brewer John S. Labatt. MacCardell [sic] said in his statement that McCaughey had suggested the kidnapping in 1931 and for a fifth of the ransom would act as mediator between the gang and the Labatt Family. But then the brewer got sick and the commission of the crime was delayed until August 14, 1934. The plans fell through because one of the gang members fled to the United States in the only car available to them. McCardell was left stranded in Muskoka with the kidnap victim. It was then necessary to take a certain Gerald Nicholson into confidence, who similarly was arrested. After his release in Toronto Labatt was not able to pay the promised ranson of 20,000 Dollars because of sufficient police surveillance until the authorities succeeded in apprehending the criminals. |
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September 6, 1935 page 1 _____ Dr. Frick's Address to the International Congress For Studies on Population Berlin. — The International Congress for Studies on Population was opened here with a long address by Reich Interior Minister Dr. William Frick. He stated that the German Sterilization Law is viewed merely as a necessary measure which was enacted in order to prevent imminent danger. Germany persues the goal of facilitating marriages which produce children based on human forethought, who can be raised to become useful members of the German community. If the parents are unable to train their children in a proper manner because they lack the means, then the State must take over. National Socialism has led Germany back to organic thinking. This is why the Third Reich has dedicated vigorous attention to population policies. Measures introduced thus far have yielded a birth rate for 1934 of 23.4 percent higher than the previous year. This rise has come about under unusually favorable conditions. The unemployment problem could not be solved without finding a satisfactory handling of population policies. Women must again return to the home as wife and mother. The income of hereditarily healthy families must be protected. In the future the ending of pregnancy will only be permitted after a doctors' commission decides on the case. In the opinion of the Nazis, the life of an unborn child shall not be disturbed for purely economic reasons. German Journalist Detained in Romania _____ Bucharest. — The local representative of the Völkischer Beobachter was arrested in Kischinew on his way from his hotel to a meeting of the National Christian Defense League and taken over the border. He was not allowed to retrieve his suitcase from the hotel in Kischinew and on the trip through Bucharest he was unable to return to his home. His wife had to bring the necessary travel bag to the train station. |
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September 6, 1935 page 4 _____ "Internal conditions in Germany are orderly and good, there can be no doubt," declared Mr. Theodore H. Hoffmann, President of the Steuben Society of America when he arrived on board the steamer "Berlin" of North German Lloyd with the Steuben travel party. "I have also come to the conclusion that Germany will have completely solved its financial problems within a period of two years." "In the meantime," he continued, "the German people are willing to cooperate in every respect to support the government in conquering its current underlying difficulties. They are prepared to make sacrifices for the well-being of the nation. Unemployment has sharply declined, and many people have found work. Even if they are not yet bringing in the wages they would like, they are satisfied in the throught that they are helping with the restoration efforts, and that they are seeing better times." |
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September 6, 1935 page 5 _____ Buffalo. — The United Singers of Buffalo, which just a few weeks ago so successfully hosted this year's German Day Celebration in Buffalo, regrets to inform us about the dissolution of one of its member groups, the Buffalo Männerchor. President Otto Kliemann has announced that financial reasons were the cause for dissolution. The South Buffalo German Männerchor existed for five years and, if it did not achieve strong momentum, at least its singers could render beautiful performances such as the Spring Concert under the direction of Hugo Taubert. Adam Gernold, Richard Müller, and Otto Kliemann were its presidents. Recent reports indicate that the singing society will reorganize. |
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September 13, 1935 page 1 _____ Along With Others Accused With Nazi Propaganda Prague. — The Czech Police recently arrested many Germans or German sympathizers, who stand accused of working as agents and provocateurs for the Nazi Regime distributing Nazi propaganda in Czechoslovakia. In Prague the sign-painter Gerhardt Berthold was taken into custody and charged with working in the German Secret State Police luring political refugees over the German border where they allegedly shot as smugglers. An official police report indicates that Berthold identified himself as a foe of the Nazis and told emigrants he was attempting to smuggle anti-Nazi pamphlets over the border to educate the German people. He supposedly was involved in three cases in which his victim was immediately shot upon crossing the border. |
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September 13, 1935 page 2 — An Indirect Answer. "Tell me, Doctor. Am I in really bad shape?"
— Still Time. "Hello, Mr. Pine. Who's that holding your hand?"
— No Wonder. "Why do you always get anxious when a car drives by?
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September 13, 1935 page 4 _____ Judge Louis B. Brodski [sic] in New York released five defendants accused of ripping the swastika flag from the mast of the North German Lloyd steamship "Bremen" while the boat docked after its arrival at New York Harbor. He held one individual in custody for Grand Jury deliberation for hitting Detective Matthew Solomon with brass knuckles and the Judge supposedly saying that the "swastika" was a "pirate flag." All this created a great commotion. Not only has the German government lodged protest and demanded justice, but the entire German community of the metropolis is thoroughly upset by it and protest rallies by German associations are popping up everywhere. The climax of these protests will occur at the German Day Celebration taking place in Madison Square Garden in New York on October 6th. Secretary of State Hull has requested information from Governor Lehman on the Judge's remarks which may have prompted the German Reich's registering of a formal protest. Has His Own Opinion _____ Eugene F. Grigat, Executive Secretary of the Friends of Democracy in New York, said the following about the Flag Case and the verdict by Judge Louis Brodsky: "The uncivilized, unamerican activities which the Nazi element will carry out in this country make the Germans in America just as hated as in 1916. We have come to the conclusion that it is pointless to challenge conditions which prevail 3000 miles away and at the same time look upon the same conditions which prevail in Yorkville and Ridgewood. Foreign agents of the Nazi Party and supporters of the Hitler regime are fearlessly spreading the poison of intolerance against Jews, Catholics, and certain Americans of German extraction, who refuse to accept corrupting Hitler philosophy. We maintain that in this country there is no place for the swastika banner because this flag is not of a friendly nation but of a political party. We Americans of German extraction are working to have the swastika flag banned; to send stormtrooper banners back to their country; to have the Nazi uniforms disappear from the assembly halls and the streets; and to send the Nazi propagandists in this country back to a region where they can salute their Hitler-greeting to their hearts' content." Minister Frank Against the Bremen Verdict _____ Berlin. — Reich Justice Minister Hans Frank delivered a powerful address against the verdict of New York Judge Louis B. Brodsky during a meeting of Reich judges and attorneys because he let off five individuals who had pulled down the National Socialist Flag. Frank called Brodsky a Jew, who should not insult the German flag or National Socialist Germany. It would be regrettable if in a country such as the United States a Jew can give his racial hatred free reign under the protection of the judicial office. Frank protested in the name of justice against Brodsky's outrageous slander. — The cool weather, which prevailed for a long time and necessitated the lighting of the chimney fires, changed on Wednesday quite pleasantly with the thermometer rising 26 degrees up to 73 degrees. |
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September 13, 1935 page 8 _____ One day a teenage boy entered a bakery and asked for bread. The baker gave it to him and charged him 40 cents. "How much for this bread?" the boy blustered in outrage. "It's too much for something so small!"
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September 20, 1935 page 1 _____ Berlin. — Recently the legal advisor of the Reich Defense Ministry, Dr. Max Wagner stated in the Deutsche Juristischen Rundschau (German Academic Legal Journal) that every German from the age of 18 onward will be held responsible for betrayal of military secerts. Not just active soldiers but civilians are strictly forbidden to divulge secret information. Persons who do so could be forced to reimburse the Reich for resulting material damages. Military personnel would not only be placed before the Reich's highest military court but also be punished with disciplinary actions. |
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September 20, 1935 page 1 _____ Two German Classes — New Laws to Protect the Blood and the Distinction _____ Fresh under the impression made by the sharply worded verdict by the New York Judge concerning the Nazi emblem, on Sunday Adolf Hitler's Parliament declared that the Swastika Banner is the only flag of the German Reich, then again levelled measures against the Jewish population by limiting civil rights to persons of German heritage. In a special session Parliament passed the resolutions after Hitler made a fiery and persuasive speech in favor of the legislation and the issuing of an aggressive attack against Lithuania and Moscow Bolshevism. Concerning Judge Brodsky's verdict in New York the Führer stated as follows: "The insult against the German Flag in the United States, the object of which was a respectful letter of apology was issued by the American government, leaves one to recognize just how far the international Jewish agitation has extended." After Hitler's address Parliamentry President Goering submitted three pieces of legislation to the roughly 600 members of Parliament, which were promptly accepted with zealous approval. Their hands raised up many times with the Hitler greeting. Unanimous cheers rang out as the provisions for one of the new laws was read in which Jews were banned from employing household staff under the age of 45 years. The recent Parliamentary resolutions mainly dealt with: 1. The official flag of the Reich and the nation and at the same time representing the commerce flags is the Swastika Flag of the Nazis. Provisions in the law concerning the Reich Military Flags were left to Hitler and Defense Minister v. Blomberg (and those Swastika flags retain the old color palette of black, white, and red.) 2. National civil rights and those of members of the individual states will be revised in such a way that two classes of Germans will be created: a) Members of the various states under each state's protection, and b) Reich Citizens. Reich Citizens are persons of "Germanic or German-related blood." Only Reich Citizens are permitted in this new provision "to serve the Reich and the people." They receive all documentary proof of their citien status in the form of a citizenship letter, which endows them with all of the privileges and rights of citizenship. 3. Under the title "Protection of Blood and Distinction" the new law prohibits marriage between Jews and Germans or those of German-related blood; marriages of this kind, which were made on foreign soil will be declared "null and void" under the new law. Extramarital affairs between Aryans and Non-Aryans may be punished with loss of freedom and imprisonment with hard labor for persons marrying persons of another races. Jews, who employ household staff under the age of 45 can expect a one year prison sentence or a fine or both. Jews are further prohibited from showing the German Flag. They may only employ the blue-white Zionist emblem. |
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September 20, 1935 page 1 _____ Minister Kerrl Declines Invitation to Ceremony Berlin. — The local National Socialist authorities as well as the representatives of the Reich and Prussia have ostentatively stayed away from the installation ceremony of the new Bishop of Berlin, Count Konrad von Preying-Lichtenep-Moos. Hans Kerrl, the new Minister for Church Affairs, has refused an invitation to a celebratory dinner at the bishop's residence to honor the new Bishop. The reason for the decline may be "what was contained in the pastoral letter, which was read from the pulpit last Sunday," according to sources near the Bishop. St. Hedwig Church was opulently decorated for the installment ceremony. Vicar General Steinmann delivered the sermon and praised the strong faith of the Catholics of Berlin. He declared, "We are and remain Catholic, but as unshakable as our faith is, so too is our loyalty to our beloved fatherland." The pastoral letter, which elicited Kerrl's displeasure, certainly was not banned. It could be read but those newspapers, which printed it, were impounded and the letter could not be printed in brochure form for sale. |
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September 20, 1935 page 3 _____ The famous composer Brahms was known as an extraordinarily crude man. He was so blunt in his manner and speech that people generally feared him. Despite this, he was greatly esteemed in the best circles of Viennese society and every house considered it a great honor when Brahms accepted an invitation to social event. At one festive evening in a prominent house in Vienna, Brahms suddenly got up and said to his host, "I'm bored here, so I'm going home." Even the friendliest of pleadings by the host and his wife could not move the artist to stay. As the host escorted him to the door, Brahms said to him, "In case I've forgotten, apologize to any of your guests whom I insulted or angered." |
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September 20, 1935 page 2 _____ Berlin. — The leader of the National Alliance of German Jews, Dr. Max Neuman made a very interesting statement concerning the Brodsky Verdict: "Jews who consider themselves Germans regret the Judge Brodsky's spitement reason for his verdict. The incident on the "Bremen" dealt with Communist rioting against the German Flag. The Jews in the Reich have much to endure since they are not deemed Germans, and yet in their hearts they remain Germans loyal to their fatherland. They know all too well how to distinguish between the brawlers, who conduct outrages against the Jews, and the German people in general. We are certain that one day Germany will remember that the German Jew performed his duty in war and in peace and he is not to be placed on the same level as the eastern Jew, who only lived a short time in Germany. Brodsky's verdict is not directed against individual Germans but against the entire German population. As members of the German nation we strongly reject the Judge's statement because through him the Communist disturbers of the peace have gained the freedom to insult the German Flag." |
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_____ Important resolutions have been passed by the Parliament called into session on Sunday by Reich Führer Adolf Hitler in Nuremberg. He has sanctioned the Program which the N.S.D.A.P. (National Socialist German Workers Party) set in place and and what has been proclaimed essential since the takeover of power.
The Swastika Flag, the symbol first of the Party and then an ideal for the nation, has become the official flag of the Reich, the nation, and the flags of commerce. The Reich colors are and remain black, white, and red. The Führer and Reich Chancellor along with the Reich Defense Minister will confer on the form of the military banners and administrative flags.
These resolutions, drawn up by the Führer and approved by the Parliament, put an end to the uncertainty which was recognized even outside the Reich's borders as unacceptable for a long time. It's clear that the "Bremen" flag incident and the Brodsky Affair, which the Reich Chancellor specifically referenced in his speech, was then fortified in the Reich authorities' resolutions. As far as America and other nations are concerned, they will have to remember in the future their attitude towards the national emblem of a friendly nation. Personal opinions, world views, sympathies and aversions play no role here. As an official flag, the Swastika is due the same protection according to international law, and the same respect as the blue, white and red of the French Republic and — last but not least — the Stars and Stripes of the United States.
Regrettable incidents such as those from the German Day Celebration, the Engineering Conference, and the "Bremen" Case are still painful in memory and would be used in future legislative resolutions by the leadership and Parliament. In the interest of preserving good relations between friendly nations, self discipline and prudence should be the requirements of the day — personal preference and reluctance are not open to discussion.
"Honor the old flag!" — Under this guiding principle Reichstag President Hermann Wilhelm Goering bases his reasoning for the new legislation. With these words he might have spoken from the soul to a large portion of the German community around the world. Even for the German living abroad the flag colors of black, white, and red were a symbol of a strong nation, whose ships navigated the seas of the world and garnered prestige and respect. "Every period of German history has its unique symbol," the Minister explained and then continued. "Gratefully we feel that by decree of destiny the glorious flag of the Kaiser's Reich is rolled up together with the years of Germany's shame. The old colors were once the sign of victory for one, united German Reich. Versailles divested Germany of its glory and peace."
Goering firmly emphasized that the Führer and the Reich must now prevent the old colors being turned into a "banner of reaction." The Swastika Flag may return Germany's honor, and with it Hitler may hold Germany's fate in his hands. The military wanted a symbol; without the Swastika Flag a new German Army would have been impossible.
The symbol of the Third Reich, the Swastika, is the banner which waves above Germany. It was ceremonial proclaimed by law, by Parliament, by hundreds of thousands at the Nuremberg Party Days, by all of Germany and abroad. The time of uncertainty has passed. It was honorably certified as the offical symbol of 65 million people.
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September 20, 1935 page 5 _____ Leave the Meeting When Measures Against Hitlerdom Were Adopted _____ A meeting was held in the Jewish Community Center on Tuesday evening, in which an anti-Nazi program was being developed. The campaign, in which all races and sects will participate, should begin next week. These Jewish resident, who had called for the meeting, may for better or worse have been disappointed when more than a half dozen of the local Jewish business leaders were not in absolute agreement with the plan and left the meeting. Philip Zimmerman, Chairman of the meeting, revealed the program upon which most agreed that there should be a ban on German goods. Among the proposals were the following items: that the 1936 Olympic Games should not be held in Germany; that in Syracuse all German goods should be boycotted; that a resolution should be sent to Albany, in which the State is requested to enact a course of action against Hitlerdom; and that a broad-based resolution be sent to Washington recommending that relations with Germany be broken off. Additionally a committee was appointed to persuade other groups to take similar actions. It would be highly desireable if the German population and other like-minded residents of Syracuse were informed which businessman participate in this movement and which would not take part and how this latter group could be handled. Certainly the United German Association of Syracuse will take the necessary steps in relation to this action. The measures taken by a portion of the local Jewish community stand in contradiction to actions just undertaken by the National Socialist Organization for Commerce and Industry in Berlin to bring an end to the double-edged boycott resulting from antisemitic actions. The Organization is calling upon its Aryan members not to boycott any Jewish businesses. Brochures will be distributed, in which Jewish businessmen will be requested to resume transactions with Aryan businessman. |
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September 20, 1935 page 6 _____ Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl's Wanderings Through Germany Today, if the works and personality of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl rise back up out of several decades of obscurity, its because of the deep feeling of duty towards the achievements of a man, who went beyond the boundries of closet-scholarship and took a good look at the lives of the people, their everyday existence and occupations, their habits and customs delivered down through the ages. He transcended the arrogance of the intellectuals and focused on the daily order of business of a developing culture and investigated the human existence of a nation and a state at its source as it built and refined itself in the conceptual world of simple people, farmers and tradesmen of various classes in the cities and countryside. He established folklore as a science and delivered a sign to passionate collectors, who just recently experienced renewed motivation. |
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