Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard pressed to find money to finance the Third Reich's armament race. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring 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. Göring 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 Bürckel, a non-Austrian, known for his success in taming Catholics in the Saar-Palatinate. Last week Herr Bürckel 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...
Jews rejoiced last week as King Carol II cracked down with all his royal might on the anti-Semitic Iron Guard. In particular His Majesty's titian-haired Jewish Pompadour, Mme Magda Lupescu, who had to flee Rumania when anti-Semitism recently burst out, was highly delighted. She was expected soon to return to Bucharest. Meanwhile the King's forces worked day & night last week, arresting anti-Semites and piling them into Rumanian jails. They were accused of being "anti-Rumanian," and Carol II let it be known that the probable form of Government in Rumania...
...every priest, parson and rabbi knows, there is more than one way to fill a church. The National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery knows several. Founded more than three years ago, this committee has sponsored Loyalty Days every autumn with the object of filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood...