Evening star., 1938-12-04
Germans Revive
Ghetto Conditions
In Jews New Rules
Restricted Living Areas
Are lnoueuroted by
Berlin OfficiuIs
- the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. 3-Berlin officially
restricted Jews today with an ap-
proach to ghetto conditions.
The capitals police chief, Count
Wolf Hendrick Won Helldorf, gave
the signal for Inauguration of sys-
tenn Of banned streets, forbidden
areas and restricted living quarters
for German Jews which undoubtedly
will be followed by other cities.
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels on November IS, five days
after the current anti-Semitic drive
started, had pledged there would be
no ghetto for German Jews, but
newspaper headlines observed: mo
Ghetto, but Sharpest Division"
Forbidden to Drive Cars.
Coincidental with the Berlin police
chiefs action was a decree by the
chief Of all German police, Heinrich
Himmler, Withdrawing drivers Ii
censes and automobile and motor
cycle permits Immediately from all
German Jews.
His order asserted the aSsassina-
ton of Ernst vom Rath. secretary
in the German Embassy in Paris,
by the young Polish Jew, Herschel
Grynszpan, showed that Jews were
"undependable and unsuited to keep
Ing or driving motorized vehicles"
DNB, the official news agency,
commented that this preventive
measure against Jewish arrogance
gives an expression of the healthy
sense of justice of the German
people"
After Monday, Jews except those
of foreign nationality, may not
enter government buildings in the
Wilhelmstrasse without special per-
nit, nor visit such places as the
memorial to the unknown soldier,
museums, operas, athletic grounds.
May Bar Window Shopping.
Window shopping. even, along
Kurfuerstendamm, Unter Den Lin
den, LeipzigerstrasSe, Friedrich
strasse. the main shopping streets,
may soon be forbidden Jews, DNB
said. Other representative ave-
nues-like OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
once were lined with exclusive Jew
ish-owned shops will be barred to
Jews. They may not attend the
movies or theaters. To enter a for
hidden area may mean $50 fine
or six weeks in Jail.
Helldorf said, Jews living in or
next to the main streets and repre-
sentative boulevards must expect
that in the immediate future the
Jewish ban will be extended also to
these streets"
He further suggested Jews find
rooms in central and north side
streets, already inhabited mostly by
Jews. He named Kuenz, LINEN and
Grenadier streets particularly.
To Berlin residents these names
connote cheap liquor houses, crimi-
mails hideouts, tawdry pawnshops,
secondhand clothing stores and
squalid tenements of Jewish immi-
grants from Eastern Europe. They
lie in the section known as the
"Scheunenviertel'-a quarter Of
squalor and riff-raff.
Truck Decree Later.
Jews will have until December 81
to turn in their motor licenses and
driving permits, but the ban on
operation and ownership of all mo-
tor vehicles. except trucks, was effec-
tive Immediately. A decree regard
ing truck ownership will be issued
later.
Himmler's decree said, General
reasons of security and the protec-
tion of the common veal" forbid
Jewish ownership or operation of
cars and motorcycles.
DNB said:
The German Aryan has long
felt it to be a provocation and a
danger to public life to see Jew
sitting at the steering wheel Of a
motor vehicle or to see him using
auto roads of Adolf Hitler, created
by German workers hands. This
condition for which the German
people has hitherto stood with un-
exampled patience has now reached
an end. Jews no longer have any
place at the steering wheel of an