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All Germans Are Guilty of Participating in Anti-jewish Persecution, Gestapo Says

February 2, 1945
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All Germans are guilty of participating in the carrying out of anti-Jewish measures, the Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Gestapo reaching here today, declares in chiding Germans who profess “innocence” in the hope of escaping Allied punishment.

The Nazi paper asserts that there is not single German who had any scruples against the Aryanization of Jewish enterprises. “There are no ‘innocents’ in Germany,” the article says, adding that these Germans now professing to be “innocent lambs” never did anything against the Nazi regime. “The difference between them and the others is that they merely picked the best bits, but did not want to share the risks,” the paper concludes.

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