"Land of Justice"

Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering last week prepared to adopt outright thievery as an economy policy. The multi-uniformed economic dictator signed a decree providing for confiscation of practically all Jewish property throughout Greater Germany.

Jewish real estate and money holdings in Germany are estimated at $2.000,000,000, in German Austria at $800,000,000. The sweeping Goring decree demanded registration of all Jewish holdings worth more than $2,000 (5,000 marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Goering also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany.

Responsible for the elimination of Jewish economic life in Austria will be hard-hitting Josef Buerckel, a non-Austrian, known for his success in taming Catholics in the Saar-Palatinate. Last week Herr Buerckel received from Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Austria which reduce the position of Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Governor of Austria who paved the way for Hitler's triumph there, to that of a subordinate.

Believing the Easter truce on anti-Semitic demonstrations over, prankish Storm Troopers rounded up hundreds of Jews in Vienna's parks, marshaled them into parade formation, roared with laughter when they forced them to perform a burlesque of the goose step through the city's amusement centre. The troopers made Jewish cafe patrons scrub floors and wash windows, and escorted through the streets customers from Jewish stores who were forced to carry signs reading: "I am an Aryan pig. I bought from a Jewish shop." Meanwhile, the official Vienna Nazi newsorgan Voelkischer Beobachter, after declaring that by 1942 no Jew would have the opportunity to earn a living in Vienna, warned: "Jews! Abandon all hope. Our net is so fine that you will not find a hole in it through which you can slip to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. There is only one possibility for you : emigrate -- if some one will accept you." While Herr Buerckel wants an "Aryanization" of Vienna just as much as his buoyant Storm Troopers, the Nazi organ, believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Fuehrer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black-trousered Bund officers, Fuhrer Kuhn brought back a message from German Jews to American Jews. "I talked with lots and lots of Jews in Germany," Kuhn said, "and they all told me this: 'Tell the Jews in America to let us alone. We're all right.' Thousands of Jews are returning to Germany and I was really surprised to see how many Jewish stores were open."

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