Word: anti-jewish
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...take the people's minds off their worries, Goebbels launched the most violent anti-Jewish propaganda campaign of the war. The Nazis also decreed, at least for public consumption, that Party leaders can no longer hold private industrial directorates, and increased the tax on war profits. Heinrich Himmler's Das Schwarze Korps attacked Die Uberschlauen (smarty cats) who quoted letters from soldiers praising Russian techniques and organization. Explained Das Schwarze Korps: "All that which apparently is strong is nothing more than the product of the bestial urge to destroy the higher cultures of better races...
...speech welcoming unity on his terms (TIME, March 22) he answered obliquely a Fighting French memorandum which proposed the basis of an operational union. In that speech Giraud promised liberated Frenchmen that they could, if they chose, revive the Third Republic. He announced the abrogation of Vichy's anti-Jewish laws. Last week posters portraying the weary features of Marshal Henri Petain were torn from the walls of public buildings. Not all traces of Vichy were expunged, but there was enough progress to set the stage for a De Gaulle-Giraud conference...
Logically French was Giraud when he disavowed the conditions of the German armistice and the subsequent decrees of Vichy ("promulgated without the participation of the French people, and directed against them"). He said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no longer exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He also revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en bloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, said Giraud, Moslems and Jews must complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop, the former in the desert, without either having advantage over...
...slow trend toward the liberalization of General Henri Honore Giraud's North African Government (TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
Laval said he had no intention of extending the anti-Jewish laws of his German masters (particularly the wearing of the yellow Star of David) to Unoccupied France. But he insisted: "No man and nothing can sway me from my determination to rid France of foreign Jews and send them back where they originated...