The fact that the Jews manage to get enough food is often due to the good nature of shopkeepers who reserve supplies for them, and sometimes to Aryan Germans, who buy non-rationed goods for Jews living in the same block of flats. Recently the Jews were prevented from having any milk at all, and could not be served with such foodstuffs as rice or dried peas and beans, Ration cards for foodstuffs, which are issued nominally to all, when intended for Jews are stamped with a big "J." Not content with this differentiation, some local Nazi officials have obliterated the Swastika, the Government imprint, from ration cards issued to Jews. While these petty persecutors pretend that this is done because a Jew is unworthy to carry a card bearing the Swastika upon it, the effect is to bring the Jew into difficulties, since the card is mutilated and there is no proof that its owner kas not mutilated it himself and thus insulted the Nazi party, a much more serious matter than going without the ration.
Jews are not given clothes cards because it is alleged that their former prosperity ensures that they have a stock of clothes. It is for the same alleged reason that they cannot have their shoes repaired, Nor are Jews allowed to buy cotton thread or wool to repair old and worn garments,
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