Berlin, June 18.
Nazi Storm Troopers and hysterical Germans continued their relentless attack on German Jews on an Targed scale today and broadened their activities to include several American companies as German-'American tension heightened.
The Nazi campaign was directed at eliminating German Jews from Germany's economic "and cultural life and was believed renewed to take the minds of Germany's millions off Czechoslovakia.
'The present outbreak of anti-Jewish activity, it was learned to-@ay, was planned well In advance by the' Nazi storm troopers after Herr Adolf Hitler had been forced to abandon—at least temporarily—any military Snvasion of Czechoslovakia because of the French warning that] such action would mean wat Storm Troopers were Instructed to] ist Jewish shops and Jewish residents in their respective districts before the outbreak of the present intensified persecution of Jews.
The attacks today involved two! American-owned showrooms of the General Motors Ca, which _were daubed with painted question marks by Nazis who stalked through the streets, throwing terror into the Jewish community, Question marks aubed on the American property were intended to indicate "doubt" Feyarding the status of ownership.
'A United Press survey of the hardest hit Jewish sections of the city revealed that at least forty per cent. of the shops on the main streets were aubed with red paint, the Nazi de-Slanation for "Jewish shops—United New German Order Berlin, June 19.
'A. fresh anti-Jewish' movement broke out here yesterday evening. The police ordered all Jewish shopkeepers to have their names painted fon the windows of their establishments, rf letters eighteen inches high "by six inches broad, to be inscribed in white paint. As. the lettering must be placed in the middle Of the shop-windows, it obscures the Aisplays of goods inside, Jews were instructed to carry out the order before closing up their shops last night, hence there was frantic rush for sign painters.
The apparent object of the order to make clear which establishments are owned by Jews—Reuter.
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