- Count Jerzy Potocki, the Polish Ambassador in Washington,
in a report to the Polish Foreign Office in January 1939, is quoted approvingly
by the highly respected British military historian Major-General JFC Fuller.
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- Concerning public opinion in America he says "Above
all, propaganda here is entirely in Jewish hands. When bearing public ignorance
in mind, their propaganda is so effective that people have no real knowledge
of the true state of affairs in Europe. It is interesting to observe that
in this carefully thought-out campaign, no reference at all is made to
Soviet Russia. If that country is mentioned, it is referred to in a friendly
manner and people are given the impression that Soviet Russia is part of
the democratic group of countries. Jewry was able not only to establish
a dangerous centre in the New World for the dissemination of hatred and
enmity, but it also succeeded in dividing the world into two warlike camps.
President Roosevelt has been given the power...to create huge reserves
in armaments for a future war which the Jews are deliberately heading for."
(Fuller, JFC: The Decisive Battles of the Western World vol 3 pp 372-374.)
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- Ppfff !! Obviously, a case of unadulterated bigoted,
racist, non-Nazi anti-Semitism, if ever there was one. For a more balanced
viewpoint, we'll obviously have to look at the opinions of other non-Nazi
diplomats:
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- Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador in London during the
years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy
dynasty. James Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense (1947-1949),
quotes him as saying "Chamberlain (the British Prime Minister) stated
that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war."
(The Forrestal Diaries ed. Millis, Cassell 1952 p129).
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- Ppff !! again!! Typical prejudiced racism, directed at
the innocent as usual. Let's try again...
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- Hugh Wilson, the US Ambassador in Berlin until 1938,
the year before the war broke out, found anti-Semitism in Germany "understandable."
This was because before the advent of the Nazis, "the stage, the press,
medicine and law [were] crowded with Jews. Among the few with money to
splurge, a high proportion [were] Jews. The leaders of the Bolshevist
movement in Russia, a movement desperately feared in Germany, were Jews.
One could feel the spreading resentment and hatred." (Hugh Wilson:
Diplomat between the Wars, Longmans 1941, quoted in Leonard Mosley, Lindbergh,
Hodder 1976, p252).
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- Just goes to show how badly-polluted with racism even
the non-Nazi's could be.
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- Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin, said
further that the hostile attitude in Great Britain was the work of Jews
and enemies of the Nazis, which was what Hitler thought himself. (Taylor,
AJP: The Origins of the Second World War Penguin 1965, 1987 etc p324).
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- Can there be any excuse for this terrible dangerous corrosive
prejudice?
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- At the end of the First World War, Germany was essentially
tricked [see Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World (1983) p24 and
H Nicholson Peacemaking 1919 (1933) pp13-16] into paying massive reparations
to France and other economic competitors and former belligerent countries
in terms of the so-called Treaty of Versailles, thanks to the liberal American
President Woodrow Wilson. Germany was declared to be solely responsible
for the war, in spite of the fact that "Germany did not plot a European
war, did not want one, and made genuine efforts, though too belated, to
avert one." (Professor Sydney B Fay The Origins of the World War
(vol. 2 p 552)).
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- As a result of these massive enforced financial reparations,
by 1923 the situation in Germany became desperate and inflation on an astronomical
scale became the only way out for the government.
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- Printing presses were engaged to print money around the
clock. In 1921 the exchange rate was 75 marks to the dollar. By 1924 this
had become about 5 trillion marks to the dollar. This virtually destroyed
the German middle class (Koestler The God that Failed p 28), reducing any
bank savings to a virtual zero.
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- According to Sir Arthur Bryant the British historian
(Unfinished Victory (1940 pp. 136-144):
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- "It was the Jews with their international affiliations
and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such
opportunities. They did so with such effect that, even in November 1938,
after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still
owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a
third of the real property in the German Reich. Most of it came into their
hands during the inflation."
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- "But to those who had lost their all, this bewildering
transfer seemed a monstrous injustice. After prolonged sufferings they
had now been deprived of their last possessions. They saw them pass into
the hands of strangers, many of whom had not shared their sacrifices and
who cared little or nothing for their national standards and traditions."
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- "The Jews obtained a wonderful ascendancy in politics,
business and the learned professions (in spite of constituting) less than
one percent of the population. The banks, including the Reichsbank and
the big private banks, were practically controlled by them. So were the
publishing trade, the cinema, the theatres and a large part of the press
- all the normal means, in fact, by which public opinion in a civilized
country is formed."
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- "The largest newspaper combine in the country with
a daily circulation of four millions was a Jewish monopoly. Every year
it became harder and harder for a gentile to gain or keep a foothold in
any privileged occupation."
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- At this time it was not the 'Aryans' who exercised racial
discrimination. It was a discrimination that operated without violence.
It was exercised by a minority against a majority. There was no persecution,
only elimination. It was the contrast between the wealth enjoyed - and
lavishly displayed - by aliens of cosmopolitan tastes, and the poverty
and misery of native Germans, that has made anti-Semitism so dangerous
and ugly a force in the new Europe. Beggars on horseback are seldom popular,
least of all with those whom they have just thrown out of the saddle."
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- Tough stuff, Sir Arthur!! What made you get out of the
wrong side of the bed?
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- Strangely enough, in a book unexpectedly published by
Princeton University Press in 1984, Sarah Gordon (Hitler, Germans and the
"Jewish Question") essentially confirms what Bryant says. According
to her, "Jews were never a large percentage of the total German population;
at no time did they exceed 1% of the population during the years 1871-1933."
But she adds "Jews were overrepresented in business, commerce, and
public and private service:
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- * They were especially visible in private banking in
Berlin, which in 1923 had 150 private Jewish banks, as opposed to only
11 private non-Jewish banks.
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- * They owned 41% of iron and scrap iron firms and 57%
of other metal businesses.
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- * Jews were very active in the stock market, particularly
in Berlin, where in 1928 they comprised 80% of the leading members of the
stock exchange.
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- * By 1933, when the Nazis began eliminating Jews from
prominent positions, 85% of the brokers on the Berlin Stock exchange were
dismissed because of their "race".
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- * At least a quarter of full professors and instructors
(at German universities) had Jewish origins.
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- * In 1905-6 ,Jewish students comprised 25% of the law
and medical students.
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- * In 1931, 50% of the 234 theatre directors in Germany
were Jewish, and in Berlin the number was 80%.
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- * In 1929 it was estimated that the per capita income
of Jews in Berlin was twice that of other Berlin residents." Etc.,
etc.
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- Arthur Koestler confirms the Jewish over-involvement
in German publishing:
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- "Ullstein's was a kind of super-trust; the largest
organization of its kind in Europe, and probably In the world. They published
four daily papers in Berlin alone, among these the venerable Vossische
Zeitung, founded in the eighteenth century, and the B.Z. am Mittag, an
evening paper. Apart from these, Ullstein's published more than a dozen
weekly and monthly periodicals, ran their own news service, their own travel
agency, etc., and were one of the leading book publishers. The firm was
owned by the brothers Ullstein - they were five, like the original Rothschild
brothers, and like them also, they were Jews." (The God that Failed
(1950) ed. RHS Crossman, p 31).
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- Edgar Mowrer, Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Daily
News, wrote an anti-German tract called Germany Puts the Clock Back (published
as a Penguin Special and reprinted five times between December 1937 and
April 1938). He nevertheless notes:
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- "In the all-important administration of Prussia,
any number of strategic positions came into the hands of Hebrews. A telephone
conversation between three Jews in Ministerial offices could result in
the suspension of any periodical or newspaper in the state. The Jews came
in Germany to play in politics and administration that same considerable
part that they had previously won by open competition in business, trade,
banking, the Press, the arts, the sciences and the intellectual and cultural
life of the country. And thereby, the impression was strengthened that
Germany, a country with a mission of its own, had fallen into the hands
of foreigners."
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- Mowrer also says:
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- "No one who lived through the period from 1919 to
1926 is likely to forget the sexual promiscuity that prevailed.. Throughout
a town like Berlin, hotels and pensions made vast fortunes by letting rooms
by the hour or day to baggageless, unregistered guests. Hundreds of cabarets,
pleasure resorts and the like served for purposes of getting acquainted
and acquiring the proper mood." (pp. 153-4).
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- Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside
the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds "Most
of them (the night clubs and vice-resorts) were owned and managed by Jews.
And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were remembered
in after years." (pp. 144-5).
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- Douglas Reed, Chief Central European correspondent before
WWII for the London Times, was profoundly anti-German and anti-Hitler.
But nevertheless he reported:
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- "I watched the Brown Shirts going from shop to shop
with paint pots and daubing on the window panes the word "Jew",
in dripping red letters. The Kurfürstendamm was to me a revelation.
I knew that Jews were prominent in business life, but I did not know that
they almost monopolized important branches of it. Germany had one Jew to
one hundred gentiles, said the statistics; but the fashionable Kurfürstendamm,
according to the dripping red legends, had about one gentile shop to ninety-nine
Jewish ones." (Reed Insanity Fair (1938) p. 152-3).
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- In Reed's book, Disgrace Abounding, of the following
year he notes:
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- "In the Berlin (of pre-Hitler years) most of the
theatres were Jewish-owned or Jewish-leased, most of the leading film and
stage actors were Jews, the plays performed were often by German, Austrian
or Hungarian Jews and were staged by Jewish film producers, applauded by
Jewish dramatic critics in Jewish newspapers. The Jews are not cleverer
than the Gentiles, if by clever you mean good at their jobs. They ruthlessly
exploit the common feeling of Jews, first to get a foothold in a particular
trade or calling, then to squeeze the non-Jews out of it. It is not true
that Jews are better journalists than Gentiles. They held all the posts
on those Berlin papers because the proprietors and editors were Jewish."
(pp238-9).
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- The Jewish writer Edwin Black notes "For example,
in Berlin alone, about 75% of the attorneys and nearly as many of the doctors
were Jewish." (Black, The Transfer Agreement (1984) p58.
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- To cap it all, Jews were perceived as dangerous enemies
of Germany after Samuel Untermeyer, the leader of the World Jewish Economic
Federation, declared war on Germany on August 6 1933. (Edwin Black The
Transfer Agreement: the Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third
Reich and Palestine (1984) pp272-277)
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- According to Black, "The one man who most embodied
the potential death blow to Germany was Samuel Untermeyer." (p 369).
This was the culmination of a worldwide boycott of German goods led by
international Jewish organizations. The London Daily Express on March 24,
1933 carried the headline Judea Declares War on Germany. The boycott was
particularly motivated by the German imposition of the Nuremberg Laws,
which ironically were similar in intent and content to the Jewish cultural
exclusivism practiced so visibly in present-day Israel (Hannah Arendt Eichmann
in Jerusalem p 7).
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- Hitler wanted to destroy Communism, a fact that earned
him the immense hatred and animosity of the Jewish organisations and the
media and politicians of the West which they could influence. After all,
according to the Jewish writer Chaim Bermant, although Jews formed less
than five percent of Russia's population, they formed more than fifty percent
of its revolutionaries.
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- "It must be added that most of the leading revolutionaries
who convulsed Europe in the final decades of the last century and the first
decades of this one, stemmed from prosperous Jewish families. They were
perhaps typified by the father of revolution, Karl Marx. Thus when, after
the chaos of World War I, revolutions broke out all over Europe, Jews were
everywhere at the helm: Trotsky, Sverdlov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in Russia,
Bela Kun in Hungary, Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, and, most improbable of all,
Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin.
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- To many outside observers, the Russian revolution looked
like a Jewish conspiracy, especially when it was followed by Jewish-led
revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe. The leadership of the
Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of Jews.. Of the seven members of the
Politburo, the inner cabinet of the country, four, Trotsky (Bronstein),
Zinoviev (Radomsky), Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Sverdlov, were Jews."
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- (Bermant The Jews (1977), chapter 8.)
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- "The major role Jewish leaders played in the November
(Russian) revolution was probably more important than any other factor
in confirming (Hitler's) anti-Semitic beliefs." (J&S Pool, Who
Financed Hitler, p.164).
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- "There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply
ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist
Party, and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons
for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1. The prominence
of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable, and
this was a very serious contributing cause for increased anti-Semitism
in post-war years.. It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists
and communists.. led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a
whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation." (Sarah Gordon
Hitler, Germans and the Jewish Question, Princeton University Press (1984)
p 23).
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- "The second paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came
after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian
Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s. Anti-Semitism
intensified throughout Europe and North America following the perceived
and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution..Such feelings
were not restricted to Germany, or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis.
All over Northern Europe and North America, anti-Semitism became the norm
in 'nice society', and 'nice society' included the universities."
(Bernal, Black Athena vol. 1 pp. 367, 387).
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- Hitler came to power with two main aims, the rectification
of the unjust provisions of the Versailles Treaty, and the destruction
of the Soviet/Communist threat to Germany. He had no plans or desire for
a larger war of conquest, as Professor AJP Taylor showed in his book The
Origins of the Second World War to the disappointment of the professional
western political establishment.
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- What occurred in Europe in 1939-41 was the result of
unforeseen weaknesses and a tipping of the balance of power, and Hitler
was an opportunist "who took advantages whenever they offered themselves,"
(Taylor). Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way
around. Hitler wanted peace with Britain, as the German generals admitted
(Basil Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill 1948, Pan Books 1983) with
regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk, where Hitler had the opportunity
to capture the entire British Army, but chose not to. Liddell Hart, one
of Britain's most respected military historians, quotes the German General
von Blumentritt with regard to this Halt Order:
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- "He (Hitler) then astonished us by speaking with
admiration of the British Empire, of the necessity for its existence, and
of the civilisation that Britain had brought into the world. He remarked,
with a shrug of the shoulders, that the creation of its Empire had been
achieved by means that were often harsh, but 'where there is planing, there
are shavings flying'. He compared the British Empire with the catholic
Church - saying they were both essential elements of stability in the world.
He said that all he wanted from Britain was that she should acknowledge
Germany's position on the Continent. The return of Germany's colonies would
be desirable but not essential, and he would even offer to support Britain
with troops if she should be involved in difficulties anywhere." (p
200).
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- According to Liddell Hart, "At the time we believed
that the repulse of the Luftwaffe in the "Battle over Britain, had
saved her. That is only part of the explanation, the last part of it. The
original cause, which goes much deeper, is that Hitler did not want to
conquer England. He took little interest in the invasion preparations,
and for weeks did nothing to spur them on; then, after a brief impulse
to invade, he veered around again and suspended the preparations. He was
preparing, instead, to invade Russia" (p140).
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- David Irving in the foreword to his book The Warpath
(1978) refers to "the discovery...that at no time did this man (Hitler)
pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire."
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- This gives a completely different complexion, not only
to the war, but to the successful suppression of this information during
the war and afterwards. Historians today - particularly those at 'universities'
seem to know only too well where the boundaries lie within which they can
paint their pictures of the war, its causes and aftermath, and the consequences
of venturing beyond those boundaries, irrespective of the evidence.
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- Unfortunately, only too few of them have been prepared
to have the courage to break out of this dreadful straitjacket of official
and unofficial censorship, creating thereby a radically distorted racist
picture of eternal and unique Jewish innocence, which continues to bedevil
world and national politics today. Check the above quotes and information
for yourself.
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- Email comment received:
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- I worked and studied in Berlin for three years, have
an MA in International Relations and a BA in Government with a minor in
History. I am embarrassed to say that until I read this article, I had
no idea of the scope and cause for the anti-Semitism in Germany before
WWII. The Halt Order at Dunkirk was never mentioned in my studies, nor
was the ownership of the media, banks and businesses.
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- Thank you for the excellent article. It certainly gives
me a new perspective. I have always questioned the actual numbers of Jewish
victims of the concentration camps, as the numbers didn't make sense based
upon Germany's population. Perhaps it was fear of failing or being labeled
an anti-Semite by my history professors (all but two were Jewish) and classmates
that I refrained from demanding an honest discussion during my classes.
I once said that the only reason Israel existed was out of Holocaust guilt,
and I was immediately labeled a terrorist sympathizer.
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- I see what is now happening in Israel and I am aghast.
The parallels to WW II are frightening. Even today, one cannot bring up
this subject without being labeled a Holocaust denier or white supremacist.
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- Thanks again for an excellent article. I am forwarding
it to several friends.
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