Duesseldorf, Nov. 17.
Chancellor Hitler today attended the funeral of Herr Ernst von Rath, Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris who was assassinated, which took place here this morning in the presence of numerous military and civil authorities and a vast concourse of the general public, The main ceremony was held in the Rhineland Hall and speeches were delivered by Reich's Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop and the leader of the foreign organization of the National Socialist party, Herr Ernst Bchje. The latter stated that the bullets which struck down Herr von Rath were directed against Germany but that the assassin and those behind him forgot that assassinated National Socialists contributed to make the National Socialist party more powerful and more resolute.
Herr von Ribbentrop declared that ihe deceased would have a lasting place in German history. The old world was slowly but surely disappearing and no amount of vituperation and calumny could again succeed in enslaving Germany. The Foreign Minister concluded in recalling the words spoken by Herr Hitler at the grave of Wilhelm Gustloff, the. regional leader of Switzerland who was also assassinate ed by a Jew, when the Fuehrer declared: "We understand the challenge and we accept it!"—Trans-Ocean.
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