The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-11
GERMAN JEWS
FEAR DEATH IF
HITLER Wins
Expulsion, ConfiScation of
Property and Murder
Are NaZi Threats.
CAST BALLOTS SUNDAY
Fascist Leader Lays All
Troubles of Nation on
Race He Hates.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS
scrlpps- Howard Foreign Editor


WASHINGTON, March 11.-Be-
lieying they may be driven out oil
Germany If the Fascist chief
Adolph Hitler, is elected president
next Sunday, German Jews have
appealed to the United States for
help.
DR.. Cyrus Adler, president of the
American Jewish committee, now
in Washington, is in touch with
Chairman William E. Borah of the
senate foreign relations committee.
DR.. Adler admitted there was
little, if anything, this country
could do, as a government, but he
hoped a way could be found where
by moral pressure could be brought
TO bear against the element now
menacing the Jews of Germany.
The fact that so many and such
desperate appeals are coming to
him by cable, he declared, reveals
state Of mind bordering on panic
in that country.
Fear for Lives
Feeling has risen to such pitch,
he told the writer, that many of
the leading Jews do not dare re-
ceive their mail at their regular
addresses, but have it sent to Rot
terdam, Amsterdam, or some other
place outside the country.
The most fantastic legends are
being broadcast" he said, ito
arouse popular hatred. Germany,
of course, is in a desperate plight,
but all her ills are blamed on the
Jews. They are held responsible
for everything that has happened
to her since the World war.
General Dawes, according to one
story, is a Jew. His real name, the
Hitlerites are saying, is not Dawes,
but Davidson, and the Dawes plan
is just a scheme of the Jews to
wreck the nation"
There are about 100000 Jews in
Germany, according to DR.. Adler,
and most of them belong to fam
lilies who have been in the country
for nearly 1000 years. With the
exception of about 100000 who have
entered since, largely as a result of
the World war, the most recent adj
ditions date back several centuries.
Among Oldest Citizens
The Jews, therefore, are among
the oldest citizens of Germany, and
though normally there would be
nothing to fear for the citizenship
of these old inhabitants, under a
dictatorship, such as the Hitlerites
plan, anything can happen.
The National Socialist (Fascist)
leader, Goebbels. after the recent
victorious elections, openly threat
ened pogroms. And, at his Leipzig
trial, Hitler himself warned that
when he came into power heads
would roll in the sand"
AS the Jews, according to the
Nazis. are the nations greatest
enemies, Hitler's CORY threat is con-
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The Jews are threatened specific
ally with having their citizenship
taken from them and with eXpul-
sion from the country, in the print
ed Hitlerite programs. One pam
phlet which Dr. Adler said was
broadcast by the Hitlerites de-
clared, in part:
Lay Misery TO Jews
we are the enemies of the Jews.
The Jew is the cause and the bene-
ficiary of our slavery.
The Jew has caused our misery
and today he lives on our troubles.
He has ruined our race, rotted our
morals. corrupted our traditions,
and broken our power. We can
thank him for our being the goats
of the world today"
The German elections take place
Sunday. There are five candidates
for the presidency, but President
Paul Won Hindenburg, running to
succeed himself. and Adolph Hit
Ter. the fiery Nazi leader, are the
principal ones.
The race is between these two
Hence the alarm of world Jewry for
the fate of those of their race who
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