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An
Order to the Whole Party!
The following order is accordingly
issued to all Party offices and Party organizations.
Point
1:
Action Committees for the
Boycott against the Jews
In every local branch and organizational section of the
NSDAP [National-Socialist German Workers’ Party] Action
Committees are to be formed immediately for the practical
systematic implementation of a boycott of Jewish shops, Jewish
goods, Jewish doctors and Jewish lawyers. The Action
Committees are responsible for making sure that the boycott
will not affect innocent persons, but will hit the guilty all
the harder.
Point
2:
Maximum Protection for all
Foreigners
The Action Committees are responsible for ensuring
maximum protection for all foreigners, without regard to their
religion, origin or race. The boycott is solely a defensive
measure, directed exclusively against the German Jews.
Point
3:
Propaganda for the Boycott
The Action Committees will immediately use propaganda
and information to popularize the boycott. The principle must
be that no German will any longer buy from a Jew, or allow
Jews or their agents to recommend goods. The boycott must be
general. It must be carried out by the whole nation and must
hit the Jews in their most sensitive spot.
Point
4:
Central Direction: Party
Comrade Streicher
In doubtful cases the boycott of the store concerned is
to be postponed until definite instructions are received from
the Central Committee in Munich. The Chairman of the Central
Committee is Party Member Streicher.
Point
5:
Supervision of Newspapers
The Action Committees will scrutinize newspapers most
stringently with a view to observing the extent to which they
take part in the information campaign against Jewish atrocity
propaganda abroad.* If any newspaper fails to do this or does
so to a limited extent only, then they are to be excluded
immediately from every house in which Germans live. No German
person and no German business may place advertisements in such
newspapers. They [the newspapers] must be subjected to public
contempt, as written for members of the Jewish race, and not
for the German people.
Point
6:
The Boycott as a Measure for
the Protection of German Labor
The Action Committees, together with Party cells in
industry, must carry into the enterprises explanatory
propaganda on the consequence of Jewish atrocity campaigns for
German production, and therefore for the German worker, and
explain to the workers the need for a national boycott as a
defensive measure to protect German labor.
Point
7:
Action Committees Right Down
into the Smallest Village!
The Action Committees must reach out right into the
smallest peasant village in order to strike particularly at
Jewish traders in the countryside. On principle, it is always
to be stressed that this is a matter of a defensive measure
which has been forced on us.
Point
8:
The Boycott Will Start on
April 1!
The boycott is not to begin piecemeal, but all at once;
all preparations to this end are to be made immediately.
Orders will go out to the SA and SS to post guards outside
Jewish stores from the moment that the boycott comes into
force, in order to warn the public against entering the
premises. The start of the boycott will be made known with the
aid of posters, through the press and by means of leaflets,
etc. The boycott will start all at once at exactly 10:00 a.m.
on Saturday, April 1. It will continue until the Party
leadership orders its cancellation.
Point
9:
Mass [meetings] to Demand
the Numerus Clausus!
The Action Committees will immediately organize
tens of thousands of mass meetings, reaching down to the
smallest village, at which the demand will be raised for the
introduction of a limited quota for the employment of Jews in
all professions, according to their proportion in the German
population. In order to increase the impact of this step the
demand should be limited to three areas for the time being:
a) attendance at German high schools and universities;
b) the medical profession;
c) the legal profession.
Point
10:
The Need for Explanations
Abroad
The Action Committees also have the task of ensuring
that every German who has any kind of connections abroad will
make use of these in letters, telegrams and telephone calls.
He must spread the truth that calm and order reign in Germany,
that the German people has no more ardent wish to go about its
work in peace and to live in peace with the rest of the world,
and that its fight against the Jewish atrocity propaganda is
solely a defensive struggle.
Point
11:
Quiet, Discipline and No
Violence!
The Action Committees are responsible for ensuring that
this entire struggle is carried out in complete calm and with
absolute discipline. In future, too, do not harm a hair on a
Jew’s head! We will deal with this atrocity campaign simply
through the incisive weight of the measures listed. More than
ever before it is now necessary for the whole Party to stand
in blind obedience, as one man, behind the leadership....
Voelkischer Beobachter
(Sueddeutsche Ausgabe), No. 88, March 29, 1933.
*
This was the phrase used by the Nazis for press accounts of
atrocities against Jews in the Third Reich.
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