Extracts from Goebbels's published diary, on the anti-Jewish boycott on 1 April 1933 and the reaction in foreign countries

FROM THE IMPERIAL HOUSE TO THE REICH - CHANCELLORY [Vom Kaiserhof zur Reichskanzlei]
By Dr. Joseph Goebbels Published by
"Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf." Munich, 1934. Pages 208, 290-292.
Diary Entry 21 November 1932 "In a conversation with Dr. Schacht I assured myself that he absolutely represents our point of view. He is one of the few who
accepts the Fuehrer's position entirely."
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The call for the boycott was approved by the entire cabinet. The Ministry has also been reorganized. Now we can start the work on a large scale.
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30 March 1933.
The organization of the boycott is perfected, only to press a button and it will start.
31 March 1933.
We now need
Many are downcast and are seeing ghosts. They believe that boycott would lead to war. If we offer resistance, we will but gain respect for us.
We are having a last discussion among a small circle and resolve that the boycott shall start tomorrow with all severity. It will be sustained for one day and then halted by an interval until Wednesday. If the agitation abroad will come to an end, then the boycott will be stopped, if not, the struggle will continue to the bitter end. Now the German Jews shall influence their racial comrades in the whole world, in order to save their own necks here.
I deliver an explanation with reference to this at the press conferences; there is breathless silence. There the slogan fits: The Jews have a Jew's fear.
In the evening I speak before the deputies at the Tennis Halls. The speech is transmitted over the radio by all broadcasting stations. I explain once again the entire situation and the necessity, which forces the boycott on us almost irrevocably.
This speech will enlighten the whole country. And tomorrow the boycott will start.
1 April 1933.
The boycott against the world atrocity propaganda has incited Berlin and the entire Reich to the fullest extent. For my own information I drive through the Taucutzien street. All Jewish stores are closed. At their entrances SA sentries are standing. The public has declared its solidarity everywhere. An exemplary discipline prevails. An imposing spectacle! Everything takes its course in the utmost tranquillity, within the Reich too.
2 April 1933.
The effects of our boycott are already plainly to be felt. The foreign countries are slowly coming to reason. The world will learn to understand, that it does not do any good, to try to learn facts about Germany through Jewish emigrants.
We are facing campaign to conquer with intellect, which will have to be carried out in the world in exactly the same manner, as we have carried it out inside Germany herself.
In the end, the world will learn to understand us.
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3 April 1933.
Today, they had better give up Germany and make no such ado of their sorrows. For, the more they talk about it, the more acute the Jewish question will grow, and as soon as the world will begin to concern itself with it, then this problem will always be solved to the disadvantage of the Jews.