Language policy precedent in a campaign environment

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See following brief excerpts of Saul Friedlander's book entitled Nazi  
Germany and the Jews Vol. I The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 written in  
1997.

p. 37  ...On April 19 the use of Yiddish was forbidden in  cattle markets in 
Baden...
p. 233 ...according to a Gestapo report on the  month of November 1935 " the 
Jews almost totally control the cattle trade  [in Hesse]...

p. 165 ...in April 1936:  the Gestapo stations  reported an increasing use of 
the Hebrew language in public Jewish political  meetings.  The use of Hebrew 
in public Jewish meetings was therewith  forbidden, but the language could 
continue to be used in closed events, for  study purposes, and to prepare for 
emigration to Palestine.   Incidentally, the reports on the use of Hebrew 
remain somewaht mysterious  unless (and this is very unlikely only meeting so 
the small minority of East  European, Orthodox (though not ultra-Orthodox), 
and ardent Zionist Jews are  being referred to.  Any sort of fluency in 
Hebrew among the immense  majority of German Jews was nil...

p. 217 ...in the Polish census of  1921, 73.76 percent of the overall number 
of Jews by religion also declared  themselves to be Jews by nationality, and 
in the 1931 census, 79.9 percent  declared that Yiddish was their mother 
tongue, while 7.8 percent ( an  implausible high number, presumably inluenced 
by Zionism) declared that  Hebrews was their first language.  That left only 
a small pecentage of  Polish Jews who declared Polish to be their mother  
tongue...




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