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"Many rabbis have warned of the potential dangers of Zionism, and have openly declared that all Jews loyal to Jehovah should stay away from Zionism." Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann - Australia "Many of our Jewish brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters died because of World War Two. This, I believe, was a result of Zionist stupidity." Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann - Australia "It wasn't enough for Zionist leaders to have aroused the wrath of Jehovah. They made a point of displaying abysmal contempt for their Jewish brothers and sisters by actively working against them. Just the idea alone of Zionism, that the rabbis had informed them would cause havoc, was not enough for them. They made an effort to pour fuel on an already burning fire. They took the liberty of telling the world that they represented World Jewry. Who appointed these individuals as leaders of the Jewish People? It is not a secret that these so-called leaders were ignorant when it came to Judaism, and that they were atheists and racists. These are the so-called statesmen who organized the irresponsible economic boycott against Germany in 1933. This boycott harmed Germany, and caused problems for Jews of Europe." Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann - Australia
Declaration of Economic War The Economic Boycott of 1933 Article from The
Barnes Review, Jan./Feb. 2001, pp. 41-45.
The war by the international Jewish leadership on Germany not only sparked definite reprisals by the German government but also set the stage for a little-known economic and political alliance between the Hitler government and the leaders of the Zionist movement who hoped that the tension between the Germans and the Jews would lead to massive emigration to Palestine. In short, the result was a tactical alliance between the Nazis and the founders of the modern-day state of Israel -- a fact that many today would prefer be forgotten. To this day, it is generally (although incorrectly) believed that when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor in January of 1933, the German government began policies to suppress the Jews of Germany, including rounding up of Jews and putting them in concentration camps and launching campaigns of terror and violence against the domestic Jewish population. While there were sporadic eruptions of violence against Jews in Germany after Hitler came to power, this was not officially sanctioned or encouraged. And the truth is that anti-Jewish sentiments in Germany (or elsewhere in Europe) were actually nothing new. As all Jewish historians attest with much fervor, anti-Semitic uprisings of various degrees had been ever-present in European history. In any case, in early 1933, Hitler was not the undisputed leader of Germany, nor did he have full command of the armed forces. Hitler was a major figure in a coalition government, but he was far from being the government himself. That was the result of a process of consolidation that evolved later. Even Germany's Jewish Central Association, known as the Verein, contested the suggestion (made by some Jewish leaders outside Germany) that the new government was deliberately provoking anti-Jewish uprisings. The Verein issued a statement that "the responsible government authorities [i.e. the Hitler regime] are unaware of the threatening situation," saying, "we do not believe our German fellow citizens will let themselves be carried away into committing excesses against the Jews." Despite this, Jewish leaders in the United States and Britain determined on their own that it was necessary to launch a war against the Hitler government. On March 12, 1933 the American Jewish Congress announced a massive protest at Madison Square Gardens for March 27. At that time the commander in chief of the Jewish War Veterans called for an American boycott of German goods. In the meantime, on March 23, 20,000 Jews protested at New York's City Hall as rallies were staged outside the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American shipping lines and boycotts were mounted against German goods throughout shops and businesses in New York City. According to The Daily Express of London of March 24, 1933, the Jews had already launched their boycott against Germany and her elected government. The headline read "Judea Declares War on Germany - Jews of All the World Unite - Boycott of German Goods - Mass Demonstrations." The article described a forthcoming "holy war" and went on to implore Jews everywhere to boycott German goods and engage in mass demonstrations against German economic interests. According to the Express:
The Jewish wholesaler will quit his house, the banker his stock exchange, the merchant his business, and the beggar his humble hut, in order to join the holy war against Hitler's people. The Express said that Germany was "now confronted with an international boycott of its trade, its finances, and its industry.... In London, New York, Paris and Warsaw, Jewish businessmen are united to go on an economic crusade." The article said "worldwide preparations are being made to organize protest demonstrations," and reported that "the old and reunited nation of Israel gets in formation with new and modern weapons to fight out its age old battle against its persecutors." This truly could be described as "the first shot fired in the Second World War." In a similar vein, the Jewish newspaper Natscha Retsch wrote:
The danger for us Jews lies in the whole German people, in Germany as a whole as well as individually. It must be rendered harmless for all time.... In this war we Jews have to participate, and this with all the strength and might we have at our disposal. However, note well that the Zionist Association of Germany put out a telegram on the 26th of March rejecting many of the allegations made against the National Socialists as "propaganda," "mendacious" and "sensational." In fact, the Zionist faction had every reason to ensure the permanence of National Socialist ideology in Germany. Klaus Polkehn, writing in the Journal of Palestine Studies ("The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941"; JPS v. 3/4, spring/summer 1976), claims that the moderate attitude of the Zionists was due to their vested interest in seeing the financial victory of National Socialism to force immigration to Palestine. This little-known factor would ultimately come to play a pivotal part in the relationship between Nazi Germany and the Jews. In the meantime, though, German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath complained of the "vilification campaign" and said:
The fledgling Hitler government itself was clearly trying to contain the growing tension - both within Germany and without. In the United States, even U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull wired Rabbi Stephen Wise of the American Jewish Congress and urged caution:
It was in direct response to this that the German government announced a one-day boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany on April 1. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels announced that if, after the one-day boycott, there were no further attacks on Germany, the boycott would be stopped. Hitler himself responded to the Jewish boycott and the threats in a speech on March 28 - four days after the original Jewish declaration of war - saying:
The Communist and Marxist criminals and their Jewish-intellectual instigators, who, having made off with their capital stocks across the border in the nick of time, are now unfolding an unscrupulous, treasonous campaign of agitation against the German Volk as a whole from there.... Lies and slander of positively hair-raising perversity are being launched about Germany. Horror stories of dismembered Jewish corpses, gouged out eyes and hacked off hands are circulating for the purpose of defaming the German Volk in the world for the second time, just as they had succeeded in doing once before in 1914. Thus, the fact - one conveniently left out of nearly all history on the subject - is that Hitler's March 28, 1933 boycott order was in direct response to the declaration of war on Germany by the worldwide Jewish leadership just four days earlier. Today, Hitler's boycott order is described as a naked act of aggression, yet the full circumstances leading up to his order are seldom described in even the most ponderous and detailed histories of "the Holocaust". Not even Saul Friedlander in his otherwise comprehensive overview of German policy, Nazi Germany and the Jews, mentions the fact that the Jewish declaration of war and boycott preceded Hitler's speech of March 28, 1933. Discerning readers would be wise to ask why Friedlander felt this item of history so irrelevant. The simple fact is that it was organized Jewry as a political entity - and not even the German Jewish community per se - that actually initiated the first shot in the war with Germany.
To understand Hitler's reaction to the Jewish declaration of war, it is vital to understand the critical state of the German economy at the time. In 1933, the German economy was in a shambles. Some 3 million Germans were on public assistance with a total of 6 million unemployed. Hyper-inflation had destroyed the economic vitality of the German nation. Furthermore, the anti-German propaganda pouring out of the global press strengthened the resolve of Germany's enemies, especially the Poles and their hawkish military high command. The Jewish leaders were not bluffing. The boycott was an act of war not solely in metaphor: it was a means, well crafted, to destroy Germany as a political, social and economic entity. The long term purpose of the Jewish boycott against Germany was to bankrupt her with respect to the reparation payments imposed on Germany after World War I and to keep Germany demilitarized and vulnerable. The boycott, in fact, was quite crippling to Germany. Jewish scholars such as Edwin Black have reported that, in response to the boycott, German exports were cut by 10 percent, and that many were demanding seizing German assets in foreign countries (Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement - The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, New York, 1984). The attacks on Germany did not cease. The worldwide Jewish leadership became ever the more belligerent and worked itself into a frenzy. An International Jewish Boycott Conference was held in Amsterdam to coordinate the ongoing boycott campaign. It was held under the auspices of the self-styled World Jewish Economic Federation, of which famous New York City attorney and longtime political power broker, Samuel Untermyer, was elected president. Upon returning to the United States in the wake of the conference, Untermyer delivered a speech over WABC Radio (New York), a transcript of which was printed in The New York Times on August 7, 1933. Untermyer's inflammatory oratory called for a "sacred war" against Germany, making the flat-out allegation that Germany was engaged in a plan to "exterminate the Jews." He said (in part):
We owe it not only to our persecuted brethren but to the entire world to now strike in self-defense a blow that will free humanity from a repetition of this incredible outrage.... Now or never must all the nations of the earth make common cause against the... slaughter, starvation and annihilation... fiendish torture, cruelty and persecution that are being inflicted day by day upon these men, women and children.... When the tale is told... the world will confront a picture so fearful in its barbarous cruelty that the hell of war and the alleged Belgian atrocities pale into insignificance as compared to this devilishly, deliberately, cold-bloodedly planned and already partially executed campaign for the extermination of a proud, gentle, loyal, law-abiding people... The Jews are the aristocrats of the world. From time immemorial they have been persecuted and have seen their persecutors come and go. They alone have survived. And so will history repeat itself, but that furnishes no reason why we should permit this reversion of a once great nation to the Dark Ages or fail to rescue these 600,000 human souls from the tortures of hell.... ...What we are proposing and have already gone far toward doing, is to prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends. ...We propose to and are organizing world opinion to express itself in the only way Germany can be made to understand.... Untermyer then proceeded to provide his listeners with a wholly fraudulent history of the circumstances of the German boycott and how it originated. He also proclaimed that the Germans were bent on a plan to "exterminate the Jews":
Untermyer concluded his largely fantastic and hysterical address by declaring that with the support of "Christian friends... we will drive the last nail in the coffin of bigotry and fanaticism...."
However, during this same period there were some unusual developments at work: The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of private cooperation between the German government and the Zionist movement in Germany and Palestine (and actually worldwide) to increase the flow of German-Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine. The modern-day supporters of Zionist Israel and many historians have succeeded in keeping this Nazi-Zionist pact a secret to the general public for decades and while most Americans have no concept of the possibility that there could have been outright collaboration between the Nazi leadership and the founders of what became the state of Israel, the truth has begun to emerge. Dissident Jewish writer Lenni Brennar's Zionism In the Age of the Dictators, published by a small press and not given the publicity it deserves by the so-called "mainstream" media (which is otherwise obsessed with the Holocaust era), was perhaps the first major endeavor in this realm. In response to Brennar and others, the Zionist reaction has usually consisted of declarations that their collaboration with Nazi Germany was undertaken solely to save the lives of Jews. But the collaboration was all the more remarkable because it took place at a time when many Jews and Jewish organizations demanded a boycott of Germany. To the Zionist leaders, Hitler's assumption of power held out the possibility of a flow of immigrants to Palestine. Previously, the majority of German Jews, who identified themselves as Germans, had little sympathy with the Zionist cause of promoting the ingathering of world Jewry to Palestine. But the Zionists saw that only the anti-Semitic Hitler was likely to push the anti-Zionist German Jews into the arms of Zionism. For all the modern-day wailing by worldwide supporters of Israel (not to mention the Israelis themselves) about "the Holocaust", they neglect to mention that making the situation in Germany as uncomfortable for the Jews as possible - in cooperation with German National Socialism - was part of the plan.
According to Jewish historian Walter Laqueur and many others, German Jews were far from convinced that immigration to Palestine was the answer. Furthermore, although the majority of German Jews refused to consider the Zionists as their political leaders, it is clear that Hitler protected and cooperated with the Zionists for the purposes of implementing the final solution: the mass transfer of Jews to the Middle East. Edwin Black, in his massive tome The Transfer Agreement (Macmillan, 1984), stated that although most Jews did not want to flee to Palestine at all, due to the Zionist movement's influence within Nazi Germany a Jew's best chance of getting out of Germany was by emigrating to Palestine. In other words, the Transfer Agreement itself mandated that Jewish capital could only go to Palestine. Thus, according to the Zionists, a Jew could leave Germany only if he went to the Levant. The primary difficulty with the Transfer Agreement (or even the idea of such an agreement) was that the English were demanding, as a condition of immigration, that each immigrant pay 1,000 pounds sterling upon arrival in Haifa or elsewhere. The difficulty was that such hard currency was nearly impossible to come by in a cash-strapped and radically inflationary Germany. This was the main idea behind the final Transfer Agreement. Laqueur writes:
Of course, this is of major historical importance in dealing with the relationship between Zionism and National Socialism in Germany in the 1930s. The relationship was not one merely of mutual interest and political favoritism on the part of Hitler, but a close financial relationship with German banking families and financial institutions as well. Black writes:
Thus one sees a radical fissure in world Jewry around 1933 and beyond. There were, first, the non-Zionist Jews (specifically the World Jewish Congress founded in 1933), who, on the one hand, demanded the boycott and eventual destruction of Germany. Black notes that many of these people were not just in New York and Amsterdam, but a major source for this also came from Palestine proper. On the other hand, one can see the judicious use of such feelings by the Zionists for the sake of eventual resettlement in Palestine. In other words, it can be said (and Black does hint at this) that Zionism believed that, since Jews would be moving to the Levant, capital flight would be necessary for any new economy to function. The result was the understanding that Zionism would have to ally itself with National Socialism, so that the German government would not impede the flow of Jewish capital out of the country. It served the Zionist interests at the time that Jews be loud in their denunciations of German practices against the Jews to scare them into the Levant, but, on the other hand, Laqueur states that "The Zionists became motivated not to jeopardize the German economy or currency." In other words, the Zionist leadership of the Jewish Diaspora was one of subterfuge and underhandedness, with only the advent of German hostility towards Jewry convincing the world's Jews that immigration was the only escape. The fact is that the ultimate establishment of the state of Israel was based on fraud. The Zionists did not represent anything more than a small minority of German Jews in 1933. On the one hand, the Zionist fathers of Israel wanted loud denunciations of Germany's "cruelties" to the world's Jews while at the same time demanding moderation so that the National Socialist government would remain stable, financially and politically. Thus Zionism boycotted the boycott. For all intents and purposes, the National Socialist government was the best thing to happen to Zionism in its history, for it "proved" to many Jews that Europeans were irredeemably anti-Jewish and that Palestine was the only answer: Zionism came to represent the overwhelming majority of Jews solely by trickery and cooperation with Adolf Hitler. For the Zionists, both the denunciations of German policies towards Jews (to keep Jews frightened), plus the reinvigoration of the German economy (for the sake of final resettlement) was imperative for the Zionist movement. Ironically, today the Zionist leaders of Israel complain bitterly about the horrific and inhuman regime of the National Socialists. So the fraud continues. End of article from The
Barnes Review, Jan./Feb. 2001, pp. 41-45.
By Larry McCart, Bible First Ministries Samuel Untermeyer was a
major player in the Zionist conspiracy against Jews and Christians, and
used Cyrus Scofield to create the so-called Scofield Bible that was used
as a tool for infecting Jews and Christians with Christian Zionism, a
Devil doctrine. As of the 1967 edition of the so-called Scofield
Bible (under the control of a publisher friendly to the Zionist cause) the
interpretations in the so-called Scofield Bible are so far removed from
Bible Truth that this 1967 edition does not qualify to be called a
Christian book — but does qualify to be called a book of the Devil.
The
interpretations contained in the so-called Scofield Bible are designed to
promote the communist party line. While Scofield was talking like a
Christian out of one side of his mouth, he was taking money and doing the
bidding of his communist friends. Samuel Untermeier was the person
who arranged the financing for the so-called "Scofield Bible".
Untermeier introduced Scofield to numerous communist and socialist
leaders, including Samuel Gompers, Fiorello LaGuardia, Abraham Straus,
Bernard Baruch, and Jacob Schiff. These were the people who financed
Scofield's research trips to Oxford and arranged the publication and
distribution of the so-called "Scofield Bible".
Samuel Untermeyer was a New
York City Talmudist who was famous for receiving
million-dollar fees as a notorious criminal lawyer. He helped drag
America into World War One that opened the door for the Bolshevist
revolution in Russia, and beginning about 1933 he became one of the main
promoters of World War Two. Samuel Untermeyer called
for economic war against Germany during a speech in New York City on
August 6, 1933. He demanded an international boycott on German
goods, and said "It is not sufficient that you do not buy goods made
in Germany. You must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper
who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German ships or
shipping." He demanded that "all the nations of the
earth" must make common cause against the claim that Germans have a
right to remove Zionists from positions of power so that Germans can
govern their own nation. He said "Jews" are "the
aristocrats of the world", and that "the work of centuries shall
not be undone". Adolf Hitler was elected to
office by German voters in 1933 largely because of a campaign promise to
end a German theocratic federal government dictatorship controlled by
Zionist religious authorities. When it became obvious that Hitler
was succeeding regarding his objective to end the German theocratic
federal government dictatorship controlled by Zionist religious
authorities, politically powerful Zionists in the US and England demanded
regime change in Germany, and World War Two began in 1939. Zionists and communists
seem to work together in an effort to have all governments of this world
under their control. Some Zionists are communists. Since the
fall of European communism during the late 1980's and early 1990's, many
of the areas formerly under the control of communists now seem to be under
the control of Zionists. Apparently there are not many
independents left, and the Zionists are talking about a One World
Government where Zionists would be masters in every nation, and the rest
of us would be similar to powerless slaves. Zionists are
crazy and ignorant like the rest of the humans, and certainly are not
qualified to replace Almighty God (Jewish, Muslim, Hindu etc.) as the Lord
and Master. Larry believes that the number one political problem in
the world today is
Zionist ambitions to be the "aristocracy of the world".
The US federal government should immediately stop all welfare payments to
the Zionist State, and should encourage Zionists and their co-religionists
to shut down the Zionist State, and to move elsewhere. Enough is
enough! From The New
York Times, Monday, August 7, 1933
Following is the text of
Samuel Untermyer's speech on August 6,1933, over radio station WABC in
New York City after returning from Europe:
What a joy and relief and
sense of security to be once more on American soil! The nightmares
of horrors I have passed though in those two weeks in Europe,
listening to the heartbreaking tales of refugee victims, beggar
description.
I deeply appreciate your
enthusiastic greeting on my arrival today, that I understand is
addressed not to me personally but to the holy economic war in the cause of
humanity that we are waging -- Jews and non-Jews alike, for we are
equally concerned that the work of centuries shall not be undone,
and that civilization shall not be allowed to die.
This holy economic war must be
waged unremittingly until the black clouds of bigotry, race hatred and
fanaticism that have descended upon what was once Germany, but is now
medieval Hitlerland, have been dispersed. If we will enlist
to a man, and persist in our purpose, the bright sun of civilization will
again shine upon Germany, and the world will be a safer place.
As our ship sailed up the
bay today past our proud Statue of Liberty, I breathed a prayer of
gratitude and thanksgiving that this fair land of freedom has escaped
the curse that has descended upon benighted Germany, that has thereby
been converted from a nation of culture into a veritable hell of cruel
and savage beasts.
We owe it not only to our
persecuted brethren but to the entire world to now strike in
self-defense a blow that will free humanity from a repetition of this
incredible outrage. This time the Jews are the victims; next time
it may be the Catholics or the Protestants. If we once admit, as
is brazenly insisted by the German Government, that such fiendish
persecution of the people of one race or creed is an internal domestic
affair and not a world concern, how are we to know whose turn will be
next?
Now or never must all
the nations of the earth make common cause against the monstrous
claim that the slaughter, starvation and annihilation, by a country that
has reverted to barbarism, of its own innocent and defenseless citizens,
without rhyme, reason or excuse, is an internal affair, and that the
rest of the world must stand idly by and not lift a hand in defense.
I have seen and talked
with many of these terror-stricken refugees who have had the good
fortune to escape over the border, forced to leave their property
behind them, and I want to say to you that nothing that has seeped
through to you over the rigid censorship and lying propaganda
that are at work to conceal and misrepresent the situation of the Jews
in Germany begins to tell a fraction of the frightful story of fiendish
torture, terrors worse than death, cruelty, and persecution that are being inflicted day by day
upon these men, women and children.
When the tale is told, as
it will be some day if the impotent League of Nations ever
sufficiently awakens from its Rip Van Winkle slumbers to the realization
of its power and duty to prosecute an investigation into the facts, the
world will confront a picture so fearful in its barbarous cruelty that
the hell of war and the alleged Belgian atrocities will pale into
insignificance as compared to this devilishly, deliberately,
cold-bloodedly planned and already partially executed campaign for the
extermination of a proud, gentle, loyal, law-abiding people -- a people
who love and have shed their blood for their Fatherland, and to whom
Germany owes in large part its prosperity and its great scientists,
educators, lawyers, physicians, poets, musicians, diplomats, and
philosophers -- who are the backbone of its past cultural life.
But why dwell
longer upon this revolting picture of the ravages wrought by these
ingrates and beasts of prey, animated by the loathsome motives of race
hatred, bigotry, and envy. The Jews are the aristocrats of
the world. From time immemorial they have been persecuted and have seen their persecutors come and go.
They alone have survived. And so will history repeat itself, but that furnishes no
reason why we should permit this reversion of a once great nation to the
Dark Ages or fail to rescue these 600,000 Jews from the
tortures of hell as we can with the aid of our Christian friends, if we
have the will to act.
Protests and pleas from
all corners of the earth, from the leaders of all creeds, having proven
as vain and unavailing as was the idealistic dream of our martyred
President of making the world safe for democracy and of protecting
minorities. What then are to be the lines of our defensive campaign
against these atrocities?
Are we right in our plan? If so, what steps shall now be
prosecuted to attain success?
Our campaign is twofold
-- defensive and constructive. On the defensive side will be the
economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services. On
the constructive side will be an appeal to the League of Nations to
construe and enforce the labor union provisions of the Versailles Treaty
and the written promises made by Germany, while the treaty was under
negotiation, to protect its minorities, that have been flagrantly
violated by the disfranchisement and persecution of German Jews.
As in the boycott,
strange to say a mere handful in number, but powerful in influence, of
our thoughtless but doubtless well-intentioned Jews seem obsessed and
frightened at the bare mention of the word "boycott". It
signifies and conjures up to them images of force and illegality, such
as have on occasions in the past characterized struggles between labor
unions and their employers. As these timid souls are capitalists
and employers, the word and all that it implies are hateful to their
ears.
In point of fact, it
signifies nothing of the kind. These gentlemen do not know what they are
talking or thinking about. Instead of surrendering to their vague
fears and half-baked ideas, our first duty is to educate them as to what
is meant by a purely defensive economic boycott, and what we are doing
and proposing.
Admittedly, the boycott
is our only really effective weapon. These gentlemen who are taking
counsel of their groundless fears to the exclusion of their reason have
done nothing and have no program except to attempt to arouse world
opinion, that is and has been from the outset on our side, as it was
bound to be because of this brutal, senseless, unprovoked assault upon
civilization.
It is not necessary to
belittle or underrate that accomplishment, if their aimless, fruitless
endeavors in that direction may be so dignified in recognition of their
good intentions, barren of results as they have been.
It is sufficient that
their efforts have proven unavailing and that the campaign of
Schreckligheit not only goes on unabated in the face of unanimous world
opinion; but that it is increasing in intensity and that the masses of
the German people, misled by government propaganda and suppression of
free speech and of the press, are either voluntarily, or through fear of
punishment at the hands of their despotic rulers, supporting their
government in this hellish campaign.
What then have these
amiable gentlemen accomplished and what do they hope or expect to
accomplish in the way of stemming this conflagration of civilization by
their "feather-duster" methods? You cannot put out a fire, and
especially that kind of a fire, by just looking on until the mad flames,
fanned by the wind of hate, have destroyed everything.
What we are proposing and
have already gone far toward doing, is to prosecute a purely defensive
economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the
German people to their senses by destroying their export trade
that makes possible their existence.
The Hitler regime has flaunted and
persisted in flaunting and defying world opinion. We propose to
organize and express world opinion in the only way Germany can be made to understand.
Hitler and his mob will not permit their people to know how they
are regarded by the outside world. We shall force them to learn in
the only way open to us.
Revolting as it is, it
would be an interesting study in psychology to analyze the motives,
other than fear and cowardice, that have prompted Jewish bankers to lend
money to Germany as they are now doing. It is in part their money
that is being used by the Hitler regime in its reckless, wicked campaign
of propaganda to make the world anti-Semitic; with that money they have
invaded Great Britain, the United States and other countries where they
have established newspapers, subsidized agents and otherwise are
spending untold millions in spreading their infamous creed.
The suggestion that they
use that money toward paying the honest debts they have repudiated is
answered only by contemptuous sneers and silence. Meantime the
infamous campaign goes on unabated with ever increasing intensity to the
everlasting disgrace of the Jewish bankers who are helping to finance it
and of the weaklings who are doing nothing effective to check it.
The Hitler regime
originated a boycott against Jews and are fiendishly prosecuting this boycott against Jews --
to exterminate the Jews by putting posters on Jewish-owned shops that
advise Germans not to do business with them, by imprisoning Jewish shopkeepers and
parading them through the streets by the hundreds under guard of Nazi
troops for the sole crime of being Jews, by ejecting them from the
learned professions where many of them had attained eminence, by
excluding their children from schools, by
excluding their men from labor
unions, closing against them every avenue of livelihood, locking them in
vile concentration camps, starving and torturing them, murdering and
beating them without cause, and resorting to every other conceivable form
of torture, inhuman beyond conception, until suicide has become their
only means of escape, and all solely because they are Jews or their remote
ancestors were Jews, and all with the avowed objective of exterminating
them.
As against this, the
foulest boycott in the annals of time, we are appealing to all mankind
to enforce a counter-boycott. That appeal is meeting with the
conviction that idealism and justice are still alive.
There is nothing new in
the use of an economic boycott as an instrument of justice. The
covenant of the League of Nations expressly provides in these identical
words for its use to bring recalcitrant nations to terms.
President
Roosevelt plans to use an economic boycott to further his noble
conception for the readjustment of the relations between capital
and labor under the terms of the sweeping National Recovery Act,
to the end that labor shall receive a larger share of the wealth
created. He is about to enlist the consumers of the country in a
national campaign in which they pledge themselves to boycott all
manufacturers, jobbers, and retailers that fail to obey National Recovery Act
codes, and to buy only from businesses that have agreed to obey National Recovery Act
codes, and that have received permission from the federal government to fly the blue eagle of
the NRA [National Recovery Act]. What
more exalted precedent do our timid friends want? President
Roosevelt's wise statesmanship and vision are the wonder of the
civilized world.
With this explanation of
our aims, I appeal to the American Jewish Committee, whose public spirit
and good intentions I do not for a moment question, but the wisdom of
whose judgment I challenge, no longer to hold aloof but to rid
themselves of their timid and ill-considered prejudices and join in
actively pressing this boycott as our only weapon except the appeal to
the League, that I shall discuss at a later time.
I purposely refrain from
including the American Jewish Congress in this appeal because I am
satisfied that 95 per cent of their members are already with us and that
they are being misrepresented by two or three men now abroad. Of
them I ask that, prior to the meeting to be held this month in Prague by
their executive committee, they instruct these false leaders in no
uncertain terms as to the stand they must take on this all-important
subject and demand that they shall either openly represent their views
or resign their offices. One of them, generally recognized as the
kingpin of mischief makers, is junketing around the Continent engaged in
his favorite pastime of spreading discord, asserting at one time and
place that he favors and supports the boycott and at another that he is
opposed or indifferent to it, all dependent on the audience he is
addressing; but always directly or indirectly delivering a stab in the
dark.
Progress
So Far Made
There is not time now,
but I hope and expect in the near future to be able to report to you the
steps that have been taken and that are already under way, and the
surprising and gratifying progress already made in many countries toward
the success of the economic boycott. Although
considerable progress in that direction has already been made in Great
Britain and in the United States, you will be surprised to learn that
they are the least advanced and as yet the most inadequately organized
of all the countries that were represented at the Amsterdam World
Economic Conference, where the boycott was unanimously and
enthusiastically approved by formal resolution by a rising vote.
The delay in America has been due in part to lack of funds and the vast territory to be
covered, but it is hoped, and expected, that this condition will soon be
corrected. The object-lesson we are determined to teach is priceless to all humanity.
Each of you, Jew and
Gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in this sacred war
should do so now and here. It is not sufficient that you do not buy
goods made in Germany. You must refuse to deal with any merchant
or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronizes German
ships or shipping.
To our shame be it said
that there are a few Jews among us, but fortunately only a few, so
wanting in dignity and self-respect that they are willing to travel on
German ships where they are despised and meet with the just contempt of
the servants who wait upon them and of their fellow passengers. Their
names should be heralded far and wide. They are traitors to their race.
In conclusion, permit me
again to thank you for this heartening reception and to assure you that,
with your support and that of our millions of non-Jewish friends, we
will drive the last nail in the coffin of bigotry and fanaticism that
has dared raise its ugly head to slander, belie and disgrace twentieth
century civilization.
[end of New York Times
article
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Why did the Germans begin rounding up the Jews and interning
them in the concentration camps to begin with? Contrary to
popular myth, the Jews remained "free" inside Germany
- albeit subject to laws which did restrict certain of their
privileges - prior to the outbreak of World War II.
