Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-21
Catholics Chief Victims for
Day as Hitler Aides Push
Campaign to Rid Reich
of "Reactionaries."
ALL MINISTER'S ARE
CALLED "SUBVERSIVE"
Officials to Attend Churches To-
day to Arrest Preachers Be
smirching" National Socialism,
Berlin Hears-Church Due to
Make Formal Answer Later.
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tCopyright. 1895. by the Associated Press>
BERLIN, July 20-A new Nazi
purge" Of ''reactionary" opposition
thus far bloodless-swept through the
Reich with increasing impetus today.
its chief victims or threatened victims
Jews, clergymen and war veterans.
NaZi publications and official
spokesman Jumped Hebrews, Catholic
and Protestant men of the cloth and
members of the Steel Helmet veterans
organization with hated Communists
and other ''reactionary" or Sub
versive" elements in the determined
fight to make National Socialism the
faith and the religion of unified
Germany.
The days developments included:
l. julius Streicher, leading Jew
batter and publisher Of the bitterly
anti Semitic newspaper Stuermer,
announced he himself would head the
drive to GUST all Jews from Berlin or
Segregate them in ghettos.
2. A decree issued by the ministry
Of the interior warned Catholic
priests to take care in what they said
from their pulpits tomorrow concern
ing the Nazi drive against political
Catholicism. Prosecutors were told
quick proof of miSdeedS must be fol-
lowed by even quicker punishment"
Wholesale arrests of clergymen were
predicted.
Stahlhelm in Danger.
5. While Minister of Labor Franz
Seldte, founder and leader of the
Stahlhelm. tried frantically TO reach
Adolf Hitler, reported ''out of the
country" it was said secret police.
who yesterday dissolved the veterans
organizations in Thuringia and parts
Of Silesia, would strike next at
Schleswig and Mecklenberg. A sweep
ing order abolishing the Stahlhelm
was expected.
4. Secret police abolished the inter-
national organization of cabaret.
vaudeville and circus artists-bring-
ing them into the scope Of the far
flung cleanup ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Subyersive elements allegedly were
included in it.
5. The papal nuncio, Cesare Or
senigo, visited the WilhelmStraSSe
where. Catholic circles said, he filed
the Vatican's second protest of the
week against the anti Catholic drive.
With Der Fuehrer himself believed
to be cruising of the Coast of Norway,
the drive against "Nazi enemies" sped
forward with unrelenting vigor remi-
niscent of the internal bitterness
which developed into the June blood
bath" of one year ago.
Today'S decree constituted virtual
warning that Nazi authorities would
sit in congregations in churches tomor-
row armed with orders to arrest and
charge with treason any one thought
to besmirch Nazi-ism. 1t was expected,
therefore. that vocal protests would
be few. The more so since the annual
conference of bishops at Fulda four
weeks hence is expected to lay down
definitely the church'S policy.
Campaign Widespread.
Indication of the extent of the cam
paign for Nazi totality came from
many quarters.
Motor lorries flleG with police rolled
along beside Nazis wno baited Jews
on the Kurfuerstendamm, repeatedly
there at the orders of Count Won
Helldorf, Berlin; new police head,
who is an avowed srti-Semite.
Word from the provinces said more
and more towns and villages we're bar
ring Jews from bathing places and
other public establishments.
Provincial papers began publishing
names and addresses If "Aryan" wom-
en- and Jews accused Of intimate re-
lations in defiance OF the Nazi demand
for racial purity"
Meanwhile Steel Helmeters were
taking stock Of their force, which APP
peared to be undergoing its supreme
test.
Seldte was said by his encourage
(See PURGE, Page 81