Four theatres were today threatened with exclusion from the Reich Film Chamber for having cut scenes offensive to Jews from the Swedish anti-Semitic film, “Peterson und Bendel,” which wa# involved in the Kurfuerstendamm anti-Jewish riots last month.
Der Angriff ### Hans Hinkel, German commissar of “non-Aryan” culture, irked at having discovered “Jewish machinations” responsible for the scrapping by the theatre owners of scenes most offensive to Jews.
Hinkel was described as angered at the “insolent audacity of the Jews behind the scenes.” The Propaganda Ministry has started an investigation. It was the alleged boos by Jews in the audience of a theatre showing that film that was supposed to have started the Kurfuerstendamm riots.
Meanwhile, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of the Schutz Staffel, Nazi picked guard, today warned “Aryans” not to buy goods from Jews.
Discussing the Jewish question, the publication said, “it will be settled by taking away from these parasites in our midst every possibility for them to get rich on the daily needs of German compatriots.”
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, was in Berlin today, reportedly to confer with Reichsfuehrer Hitler about his address earlier this week in which he scored individual and illegal acts against the Jews.
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