Messersmith, G.S., Berlin. Despatch No. 1305 to Secretary of State [Cordell Hull], Washington.
Date
1933-05-12
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Foreign minister appointed Hans Draeger to study anti-German propaganda in foreign countries; Hitler announced establishment of foundation to provide funds to families of workers who lost lives in pursuance of their duties; called on public for contributions; Goebbels had planned to go to Chicago ostensibly for opening of Chicago Fair, but real reason to make propaganda speeches in U.S.; no mention of the trip in newspapers recently; may have been advised not to go, for of all members of present government he would be least likely to get sympathetic hearing in U.S.; burning of Jewish and Marxist books carried out as planned by university students; well-known Jews removed from positions - Professor Borchardt, director of Surgical Division of Moabit Hospital, Dr. [Fritz] Haber, head of Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Nobel Prize winner, Oskar von Miller, head of Deutsches Museum in Munich, Max Liebermann, dean of German painters and honorary president of Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, and many leading authors from the Academy of Writers; many suicides among Jews; concentration camps for political prisoners increasing as arrests increase, and add further drain of government funds; Dr. Robert Ley has organized the "Deutsche Arbeitsfront," a central organization of all workers of all occupations; membership in National Socialist Party greatly increased; to get or hold job in Germany it is almost mandatory to be Party member; government and Party leaders now exercising greater authority over individual members.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.