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Germans Hear Nationals Must IT ear Swastika In United StatesBerlin — lt;**• — Americans in Berlin arc busy these days knocking down with smiles a story going the rounds of the German capital that every German nat.onal m the United States has been compelled to wear the swastika, leading to orders that Jews in Germany must wear a yellow star of David on their left breasU.Jews have been wearing the tar of David since Sept. 19, and hroughout the city one hears the people saying:•*The Jews must wear the yel-ow star because America compels our Germans over there to sear the swastika.”Offices of American newspaperj correspondents and the United States embassy have received frequent inquiries whether the ru-1 mortis based on fact.The first inquiry to the Berlin bureau of the Associated Press came from someone who said he had heard that Milwaukee, Wi*„ w as the first to enact such a regulation.As three staff members hail from Milwaukee, they were able to assuie the inquirer they undoubtedly would have heard from home if the story were trueOfficial press officers said the government had nothing to do with the story and insisted they knew* nothing about it.
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La Crosse Tribune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Sep 26, 1941
Page 15
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