Order to Party Members by Rudolph Hess, Deputy Fuehrer, April 1933
Source: Jeremy Noakes & Geoffrey Pridham eds. Documents on Nazism, 1919-1945. (London 1974), p. 463.
While I can understand that all decent National Socialists oppose these new assaults by Jewry with utter indignation, I must warn them most urgently not to vent their feelings by acts of terror against individual Jews, as this can only result in bringing Party members into conflict with the political police, who consist largely of Party members, and this will be welcomed by Jewry. The political police can in such cases only follow the strict instructions of the Fuehrer in carrying out all measures for maintaining peace and order, thereby making it possible for the Fuehrer to rebuke at any time allegations, made by Jews abroad, of atrocities and boycotts.
