With the kind permission of State Archive Hamburg.
Where do you now practice sports? The club which has been dear and valuable to you up until now has
introduced “Aryan articles” into its by-laws and no longer includes you in the line-up for athletic competitions. As an
active athlete, you have thus been immobilized. Should you therefore give up the sport you have grown to love? No! The
SCHILD”
[Vaterländischer Bund jüdischer Frontsoldaten] and which is led by experienced active athletes, provides you the
opportunity to continue practicing your sport. This is where all those Jewish male and female
athletes come together to whom satisfying practice and especially the heretofore existing true
camaraderie are no longer available in their current clubs. Those previously uninterested in
sports who, in the current circumstances, have come to realize that physical training of Jewish
youths is one of the foremost necessities of our time, are very welcome among us.
We do not want to poach members from other local Jewish sports clubs.
On the contrary, whoever is already organized in a Jewish sports club should
and must become even more active in it.
Those who are ideologically closer to another Jewish sports club also act in our interest when
they decide to join that club instead.
Only those who fully and truly consider themselves one of us and who, even if they were too young
to have fought in the World War, are of a patriotic mindset even today,
are not only welcome among us, it is their duty to join us. The newly
established
field hockey, but also in track and field, swimming, tennis, cross country, gymnastics,
boxing, jiu-jitsu,
etc. It will offer opportunities for group hikes, and it will provide practice facilities,
convenient courts and playing fields, and competent instruction for its members.
Registrations must be sent to the office of the German-Jewish War Veterans’
Association,
attn.