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File  number 71135 R German Foreign Ministry archives:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Political Department
Consular reports on the political situation in Tunisia (April 1933-1936)
Themain issue in the  reports is the  opposition to the colonial regime. The Colonial Independence Party incites against Jews. The relationship between the French and Italian and general issues.
15/03/35, 03/18/35:
 Prohibition of the  distribution in Tunisia  of a booklet on Hitler's Nazism and the position towards the Jews was published in Egypt.

09/05/34:
A letter from the German Consulate in Tunisia – Tunisia's economic situation cause assaults between  the local population, and Jews in particular in Sfax and Susa.
Tunisian government expels "troublemakers" including six Jewish and Muslim Communists 'agitators'.

31/08/34:
The tensions between the natives and the Jewish population (reports from the embassy in Paris).
Fear of the developing of  pogroms in Constantine, Algeria. Hypothesis anti-Jewish trend guided by the right
(Francistes) in Paris.

Report No. 275/36 – January 36:
Annual Report on the general atmosphere of French North Africa in 1935.
Section One: Although the Jewish incitement on the  behalf of the boycott of German goods has decreased, even disappeared, attitude and strong trade Germans problematic because of the negative atmosphere among the French against Germany. German and Nazi party members living in Tunisia were persecuted by the authorities (especially by the secret police).
In addition, reports on fear of possible Cooperation German-Arab. This concern is expressed with  warm feelings toward Germans demonstrated by the Arabs, in the hope that the Germans would free the  Arab from the dependence on Jews.

24/01/36
Consul Thomas reports on a lecture of the head of the League aginst antisemitism Bernard Lachache on the suffering of the Jews in new Nazi Germany .
Lachache  also accuses the Germans of  incitement that led to the pogrom of Constantine, Algeria. Tunisian press reserved its position.