Foreign News: Peace Without Jews

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Jews in Germany were last week forbidden to use telephones except for calls to doctors and hospitals, ordered to remove red crosses painted on their hospital roofs as protection from bombing, forbidden to enter stores and markets except between 4 and 5 p.m. Das Schwarze Korps, mouthpiece of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo, proclaimed that Hitler's gift to Europe will be a "Jewless peace":

"As soon as the last Jew is driven out of Germany the rest of Europe, which is awaiting a German peace, may know this peace must be one without Jews. . . " Germany's and Italy's victory will secure space far away from European labor and culture where the scum of humanity may try to lead a life of its own toil or die a death it earned."

Nazi Jew-haters have long studied the globe, picking out other peoples' colonies as a home for Europe's Jews. Madagascar stands high on the list. Australia, its Anglo-Saxon population moved to Canada and its great central plain irrigated with Jewish millions, has been considered. Even Alaska has been mentioned as the new Jerusalem. Hinting at tough measures to come, the Himmler organ warned: "The European Jewish question is not to be solved through homeopathic remedies and not by . . . humane directions."