The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-14
700, ,OOO German Jews In Frantic Mood Today
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Nazis made a quick effort to limit the slump when the Reich private bankers organization instructed members not to accept orders from Jews for sale of securities and to lower the price limits for orders from Jews.
 Foreign financial circles believed that the government would use the annual October census in which Germans stated the amount of their property as the basis for collecting the $4O0, 600, 900 mass fine.
 It was suggested that the levy probably would not be carried down to the lower brackets, but would be worked out with particular severity on the wealthy and prominent Jews many of whom were under arrest as 8 result of seizure of many thou sands of Jews in the last week. Many of the wealthy Jews have large blocked" accounts controlled by the government.
 Work Out Assessments
 A commission met today under directions of Hermann Wilhelm Goering, commissioner of the four year plan, to work out assessments on individual Jews for payment o1 the $400, 600, 900 fine. It was expected that the first of 5000 to 4,000 notif1- cations of assessments would be sent out this evening.
 Some arrested Jews were released in some cases escorted by police, SC that they could go to their homes and arrange to get cash from banks to pay their share.
 Servants and members of Jewish families who were not arrested were warned under penalty of immediate arrest against telling outsiders any details of the proceedings.
 The government instructed wealthy Jews that in addition to paying their share of the $4OO, ,6OO,00O fine, they must held poor shop owners pay for repairs of the damage inflicted bS last weeks mobs.
 Wealth $3,2OO, ,00O,O
 The newspaper Angrif cited "for- eign estimates" of Jewish wealth in Germany as high as 5000, ,000, ,O0C marks ($3, 200, ,0O0,O00D adding that since foreigners are bent on mak- ing propaganda against Germany, il is certain that their estimate o1 Jewish property is not over high."
 The newspaper contended that ex- clusion of Jews from theaters, movies concerts and the like is no hardship because they have their own cul- tural organizations.
 Angriff said the Jews maintain one theater in Berlin for operas and plays, while three stock companies travel through other parts of the Reich.
 Faced with the appalling task oi raising a $400, ,000,00 fine, imposed by the government, a group of prom inent Jews conferred in Berlin throughout the night. Each one contributed to fund to help Jewish shop keepers repair the damage in- flicted in Thursdays rioting. Social Restrictions The government began carrying out new social restrictions on Jews today. The minister of education or dered universities to refuse Jews ad- mission to lectures. A decree Satur- day had closed the theaters, mu- seums, dance recitals and lectures tl Jews.
 Fines and decrees which scattered new refugees beyond the German border, sent others to concentra. tion camps, and promised to impov. erish all Jews, were not at an end they learned.
 Jewish business will be trans ferred shortly into German hands, Paul Joseph Goebbels, propagands minister, announced at a winter re. lief demonstration yesterday. He charged that German Jews were guilty of the murder in Paris of a German diplomatic official = which caused the current anti-Sem- itic drive-and that the Jews were working throughout the world against Germany.
 Now They Must Suffer
 "Now they must suffer the conse- QuenceS of their manifold crimes, Goebbels said. The purpose of the shooting of Ernst Won Rath, third secretary of the Germany embassy in Paris, was ito effect bad relations between Germany and the European powers"
 He said there was close connec. tion between the government and the German people. The Jew regu- lations were issued, he said, because in the conception of national social. ism the governments action must all ways accord with the people.
 "The Jewish problem will be solved shortly in accordance with the Ger man peoples will. The people want it thus and we are only carrying out the peoples will"
 Goebbels again denied that the demonstrations had been organized
 Jews Await with Dread
 Jews awaited with dread the an- nouncement of further decrees Many were already under arrest. The shops throughout the nation were wrecked. They had been fined $400,- 600, 0,0000. They feared that next they would be segregated in ghettos.
 Their immediate problem was how to raise the fine in the face of new Nazi wrath as the price of failure Although Jewish property previous ly had been valued at $2,805, ,000, 900 other members of parliament. tended to incite attacks such as the one in Paris.