A Poor Job

The campaign which Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler’s right hand man, has launched against the Zionist movement in Germany can be easily explained. It is directly connected with the trial of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” which is to resume soon in Berne.

Herr Rosenberg is the translator of these “Protocols” into German. As a matter of fact, his entire political career was built up on the works which he published in connection with the “Protocols.” Now that the court in Berne is to establish the spuriousness of this document, Herr Rosenberg feels that he must save his face by linking the Zionist movement to the “Protocols.”

The series of articles which Herr Rosenberg is now running in the Voelkische Beobachter, alleging that German Zionist leaders, acting as an integral part of the fictitious “Jewish international,” betrayed Germany during the war, will not be taken seriously by anyone who knows something about the role which the Jews played in the German army during the World War. The fact that not less than 12,000 Jews fell on the German front is the best argument against Herr Rosenberg’s allegation.

Everybody knows that during the war, the small Zionist groups in Germany were totally isolated from the world Zionist movement. It is therefore absurd to state—as Rosenberg does—that the Zionist leaders of Germany helped the anti-German powers to win Palestine away from Turkey.

Nazi leaders have on many occasions emphasized the fact that Zionism, as a purely nationalistic movement, coincides with the nationalistic and racial theories which National Socialism is preaching. It was on the strength of this theory that Zionist activities have so far not been prohibited in Germany.

Now Rosenberg comes and upsets this theory. Anxious to whitewash the “Protocols,” he tries very hard to attach to the Zionist movement the idea that German Zionist leaders interfered in internal affairs and directly helped the allies against Germany. The job which Herr Rosenberg is now doing will, however, not influence any but the most prejudiced. It will certainly not influence the court in Berne.