The Actions Committee of Jewish Germans has been formed here under the leadership of the Union of National German Jews, with the cooperation of the Federation of Jewish ex-Soldiers at the Front and a number of youth organizations. The Actions Committee and the groups of Jewish Germans standing behind it declare themselves with the utmost decisiveness for a strong national Germany, are prepared to collaborate in the building of the new German Reich with all their power, and repudiate vigorously every attempt at foreign intervention in internal German affairs.
The Committee will by means of organized enlightenment, especially through the foreign representatives of German firms, reports in the foreign press and all other means within their power, and in all circumstances in collaboration with the German authorities and national organization, do whatever it can to put a complete and rapid end to the agitation against Germany.
TO CALM JEWISH FEELING
The Committee regards it as its task to work inside the country towards calming down the existing feelings of excitement and restoring collaboration on a basis of confidence between national Jewish and non-Jewish Germans.
Dr. Max Naumann put forward a suggestion last August, before Hitler’s assumption of power, that Jews should join the Nazi movement. He was supported in the suggestion by one Clemens, who, writing as a member of the Nazi Party, said that the Nazi movement would welcome the adhesion of loyal and Germanic Jews. A large section of the National Socialists are not anti-Semites, he said, and such a fusion would put a stop to the internecine warfare among us Germans, and stop the harm that is being done to Germany and the German cause.
A group of young Jews was organized in Germany last month which stands on the basis of the Union of National German Jews headed by Dr. Naumann.
AT ONE WITH FATHERLAND
We young Germans of Jewish origin and Jewish faith, said the resolution adopted at the organization meeting, feel ourselves in this hour of need of our Fatherland at one with all the forces of the young national revival movement. Loyal to German history and the German future we are prepared at all times to serve the nation with life and limb, no matter what the outward lot of the German Jews may be.
We are at all times prepared to cooperate with all nationalists, so far as they do not induge in senseless brutal violence for its own sake, but seek to bring about the stabilization of a strong Government of the rig##We hold that there is no other Jewish interest than the Jewish religion. We shall exert every ounce ### our energy on every occasion for th# guarantee of the constitutional right to practice our religion, even if it is no longer binding on some of us.
JEWISH SOLDIERS’ STATEMENT
Only yesterday the Federation of Jewish Ex-Soldiers at the Front issued a statement to the Jewish population, in which it sought to {SPAN}dispe#{/SPAN} the impression among large sections of the Jewish population that the Jewish ex-soldiers were acting only for those Jews who fought at the front, and primarily for those who are its members. That is not so, it said.
The Federation of Jewish Ex-Soldiers is convinced, it said, that the participation of its members in the War gave it the right to make representations in the interests of the whole of German Jewry.
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