"Woe to the Jews!"

The Reich's biggest pogrom last week continued and expanded. Their present hunger and oppression was not all that Jews needed to fear. They seemed to have no future but hunger and oppression. The Fuehrer and Chancellor made it known through trusted Nazis that in all probability Germany will rebuff all offers by the Great Powers to organize emigration of Jews from the Reich (see col. 3).

Meantime, Nazis themselves were worried. Their problem was how to collect the 1,000,000,000-mark fine for the killing in Paris of Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan. Some 9,000,000 marks was got out of rich Berlin Jews, but there was some question that the raising of the other 991,000,000 might cause such widespread liquidations of assets that the delicate German economy would be jeopardized.

Meanwhile, further economic proscriptions against Jews continued. After January i Jews will be barred from all wholesale and transit trades. Employment contracts with Jews may be canceled on six weeks' notice. In Breslau telephone service to Jews was cut off. Spiritual ministration practically ceased for Jews: the Rabbis were in jail. Money expropriations and deliberate confusion in issuing and honoring emigration permits turned hundreds of fugitive Jews back at the border.

In Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria.

To a race against whom all had been done that could be done short of mass murder, the Berlin Zwoljuhrblatt screamed: "Woe to the Jews if another helper is paid or incited by them and raises his murderous hand against a German!"

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