Evening star., 1938-11-23
Germany 10 Seize
2OPer Cent Of Jews
Riches Over $1,000
Assessment to Be Made
As Port Payment or
$400, 900, 900 Fine

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 23.-The German
government ordered levy of 20 per
cent of Jewish fortunes exceeding
$4,000 today to pay the $4cO 900 900
fine imposed for the assassination
of Ernst vom Rath, Paris Embassy
Secretary, by Jewish boy.
The decree defining the means OF
collecting the fine in four INSTALL
ments was published in the official
gazette as the German propaganda
machine went into full swing with
warning no mercy would be ac-
corded in writing "the last chapter
of the Jewish question in Germany"
The levy is to be imposed on Ger
man Jews and those who live in
Germany but are without citizenship
in other countries Foreign Jewish
citizens are exempt.
Foreigners Exempt From Fine.
The decree stipuls .es:
"A contribution of 1000 100000
reichsmarks ($4OO,OOO, ,0OO will be
collected from German Jews and
those Jews without nationality in the
form of tax levy on their fortune.
Foreign Jews are exempted from
the levy.
The levy will not be imposed if
the entire fortune, after deduction
of all liabilities, does not exceed
5000 reichsmarks ($2,0OO)."
Payments are to be made to the
state treasury. Payments by insur-
ance companies to Jews for damage
done their shops and synagogues
during the November 10 violence,
after Vom Rath's death, are to be
turned over to the government.
These amounts will be accepted as
partial payment of the levy. If the
insurance payments exceed the 20
per cent levy, however, the entire
amount will be confiscated by the
government.
Warned of Further Penalties.
The entire 20 per cent levy must
be paid by August Is, 1889 Jews
just make their payments without
further notice and will be subject
to further penalties if they fail to
do So
Their financial condition as of
November IL, 1888, when the levy
was announced, will determine the
size of their contributions.
Any Jew desiring to emigrate must
pay his full 20 per cent before he
will be permitted to leave Germany.
In case the 20 per cent levy does
not yield the full billion marks
($4O0 O0O,OOO) of the fine, the finance
ministry reserves the right to raise
the percentage to such higher figure
as may be necessary.
The decree gives possible avenue
of escape to married couples of
which one member is non-Jewish,
for it is provided that only the
Jewish partner of such a marriage
is compelled to pay his or her share.
Hence the fate of such couples de-
pends on whether property is in the
name of the Jewish or non-Jewish
partner.
determination Predicted.
Opening a winter-long series Of
anti-Semitic demonstrations, Propa-
ganda Minister Goebbels told 1000
colleagues at Kroll Opera House last
night that the Nazis would persevere
until the Jewish problem" is solved
until the Hebrew is driven from
German life.
Das Schwarze Korps, publication
of the Black Uniformed Elite Guard,
predicted determination of the Jews.
Both Goebbels and Das Schwarze
Korps tooke note of British and
United States sentiment, although
there was no immediate reaction to
the American note of yesterday ask
ing assurances American citizens
would not be affected by DEGREES
ousting Jews from German industry.
Referring to criticism Of the anti
Jewish drive by the British House
of Commons, Goebbels said point
edly:
IF the English want to conclude
a binding friendship with the Ger
man people, they should not make
this friendship dependent on inner
political German circumstances"
Establishment of a Jewish state
outside Germany was the only way
by which German Jews could "be
saved from otherwise inevitable ex-
tinction," said Das Schwarze Korps,