The Washington times., 1933-04-01
NAZ| TROOPERS
/. ON GUARD At
ALL SHOPS
Customers Warned to Keep
Away and Names Listed
If They Persist
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against atrOcity propaganda!
Don't buy in Jewish shops"

against atrOcity propaganda!
Don't buy in Jewish shOps!"
A trip through the thickest
shopping districts Of Berlin, in.
cluding such regions as Alexan.
derplatz, LeipzigerstraSSe and
Interchangeable, revealed that
most Jewish shops which did
open their doors this morning
quickly closed.
They had no customers and
large crowds gathered before
their opened doors.
The association Of chain de-
partment stores recommended
that all department stores
throughout the country, including
non-Jewish, remain closed today
sin order to support the govern.
ment in defense Of the anti-Ger-
man boycott abroad" This recSm-
mendation, however, was only
partly needed.
The biggest department stores
closed but many smaller jewish
owned department stores were
open III SO111C ScCIAOAAo "a OSA NAA'
Restaurants Picketed
Curious crowds gathered out
kide Jewish shops everywhere.
Nazi sandwich men," bearing
posters reading, Don't Buy jew
ish," paraded outside these estab-
lishments, while unarmed Nazi
pickets stood guard before the
doors.
Jewish-owned restaurants opened
but generally with large signs
painted in red:
Strictly Kosher"
Even the world-famed KEN
pinsky, proprietor of the immense
Haus Vaterland, restaurant and
night club, one of the show places
of Berlin. was labeled JEWISH
and Nazis we're stationed before
his doors to warn customers away.
Jewish-owned chain cigar stores
opened at the customary hour
but soon closed.
Tauentzienstrasse, in the up
town fashionable shopping dis
trict, where half the shops are
Jewish, was heavily picketed by
Nazis. Nevertheless, though large
crowds stood outside, several
Jews entered and made small
purchases, evidently in protest
against the boycott.
Purchases Show Protest
From Interchangeable up
Tauentzienstrasse, past the fam
GUS memorial church into the
fashionable Kurfurstendamm. the
police arrived early in force.
They kept the crowds constantly
ION the move, especially before
tthe closed Jewish department
stores.
On many Jewish shops in this
neighborhood the name OF the
proprietor and the fact that he
was a Jew was placarded before
the door. In some cases this
line was added:
Grave digger of German
workers, paying starvation
wages"
BY noon non-Jewish shops,
restaurants and cafes were past
ling up labels reading:
German business"
Others read:
"Buy 100 per cent German"
Everywhere armed police were
in sight but the Nazi picketS dis
played no arms.
Wertheims was the only big
Jewish department store that re.
manned open. All branches Of
Wertheims were picketed, lnclud"
ing the main store in the heart
ttf the city, which is well known
TO visiting Americans, and very
few persons entered.
Most of the Jewish paWnbrokerS
closed their doors when crowds
began gathering and Jewish old
clothes merchants followed suit.
Jewish worshippers at the cen
fIal synagogue in Oranienberger.
,Rtrasse were not moleSted.
Police came to the rescue Of
q Jewish couple who openly criti-
cized Nazi picketing in Tauent-
zienstraSse. A menacing crowd
quickly gathered but policemen
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