The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
World Front
by HARRY CANNES =
Unworthy Nuremberg"
Hebrews, 10
Thaelmann and Whips

I - NAAS itetAAi tAOQDlC COils
fronting the fascist madmen. is
shown by the latest and most star
Ting speech of Julius Streicher.
From beginning to end Streicher's
speech on Sunday was a desperate
defense of fascism.
To understand Streicher fully.
his speech must be placed in its
proper setting. Streicher is Nazi
district leader in Nuremberg, and
after the June 80 slaughters. Nu-
remberg was picked as the best
place for the Nazi congress after
the bloody purge. That is to saw.
that Of all places in Germany, Hit
Ter picked Nuremberg as the spot
where he considered the people
most loyal to the Nazi;.
But it is precisely in Nuremberg
E, where Streicher now must
say: THE whispering campaign
lagainst fascist ruIel is so for
midable that, if 1 did not know
the healthy soul of the German
people, I would despair of them
and proclaim Nuremberg mn
worthy of the great trust be.
slowed upon it by Chancellor Hit.
Ter when he chose it for the an
nual party cOnclave."
Streicher spent all his time an.
swering such whisperings as the
Nazis are fiendish butchers: Ger
many is faced with an economic
catastrophe; Hitler whipped Strei-
cher with Streicher's own riding
whip; a widow of one of the June
80 Nazi victims attempted to as
sassinste Adolf; that the June 30
outchery of the Nazis' own followers
was sign of the growing inner
collapse of the fascist ruling CLIQUE,
ETC., etc.
TO ALL these statements which
l are current among the most
trusted followers of Hitler in Nu-
remberg. Streicher answered in two
ways: First, he threatened arrest
and torture to all those found re-
pesting stories that are spreading
like wildf1re throughout Germany;
and second, he branded them as
! Jewish lies for he said. "the in
ventor and author of these lies is a
Jew, a Jew who wants to cause UNI
rest"
To which the Protestant clergy,
who endorsed the manifesto OF
Bishop Hans Meisser of Bavaria. re-
piled by quoting from that section
of the Bible entitled Hebrews. TO-"
This is a priestly method of indis
eating to the Nazis that the masses
no longer believe in the Jewish
atrocity stories, or that the Jew
is the incarnation Of the devil; es-
! pecially when the biblical quotation
from Hebrews calls for finish fight
against Nazi domination of the
church. saying:
"Brt if any man draw back, nv
soul shall have no pleasure in
him. But we are not Of them who
draw back into perdition; but Of
them that believe to the saving
of the soul"
TO RETURN to Streicher's speech.
He denied that Hitler horse
whipped him. But he boosted Of
the fact that he himself horse
whipped defenseless prisoner.
The victim was DR.. Steinruck, who
was charged with talking against
the Nazis and was placed in pre-
ventive custody.
II went with several party
members into Stcinruck's cell and
took a look at the wretch.
He did not act like a man after
his big talk. Thereupon / gave
him good beating with my
whip"
Heroic Nazi sadist! He has that
remarkable bravery that permits
him to whip prisoner surrounded
by Nazi gangsters with their hands
on their revolvers. But this admis-
sion of brutality gives us only a
faint flicker of what happens to
Communists arrested by the Nazis.
How many brave NaH leaders en-
tered the cell of Ernst Thaelmann
and gave him a good beating?
How many times day is Thael-
mann tortured and beaten?
With this admission from one a
the leading Nazi henchmen who
brags he would not let Hitler whip
him. what sort of trial" can our
Comrade Thaelmann expect when
he comes up for Nazi Judgment to-
day, or within a few days?
THE Nazi fiends are becoming
L more desperate every day. With
growing economic catastrophe, Ger
many is swept by sea of anti
fascist whisperings, agitation, dis
content, and maturing battles. I'm
precedented rancor and bitterness
among Professionals is developing in
the churches against the fascist
scoundrels. People spit, boo and
howl against the Nazis in the sa-
cred precincts of the Lord.
In all avenues of anti-fascist sem
timent, the struggle against fas-
cism is maturing. Organizing. pre-
paring, knitting together the po-
litical instrument which will deal
the final death blow to fascism, the
Communist Party of Germany
works energeticalls, persistently to
mobilize the discomfort into an
anti-fascist united front capable of
ending the whole rotten structure
of capitalism. which breeds this
msd rule of fascism.
The Nazi executioners know this.
but cannot stop it. In their fury
they are now ready to wreak their
vengeance On Ernst Thaelmann,
imprisoned leader of the Commu-
mist PARTY. Only the most ener-
getic and innnnadiata ,,nIiIinn4ia..