A huge mass meeting to brand the libel of the ritual murder accusation against Jews was held last night at Wuerzburg. The meeting was called under the auspices of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith.
Alfred Wiener, leader of the Union, Mayor Loeffler, and the Rev. Winkelmann, Evangelical pastor, spoke on the falsity of the libel and the outrages perpetrated in spreading it. Herr Holz, editor of the anti-Semitic journal, “Der Stuermer,” a member of the National Socialist party, was given the floor to state the case for the anti-Semites.
Several hundred Hitlerites who crowded into the hall, apparently not to seek light but to cause trouble, raised a tumult compelling the police to close the meeting.
“Der Voelkische Beobachter,” organ of the Hitlerites, is carrying on an incessant pogrom agitation. Daily it publishes descriptions of the anti-Jewish massacres which occurred in German towns during the Middle Ages. These descriptions are written with a tone of justification. The anti-Jewish massacre in Cologne in 1349 is described by the paper as a “model” of the people’s judgment.
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