dor’s answer was a curt, guttural “I don’t know anything about that.”
When asked by other reporters to discuss the Jewish situation in Germany, the Ambassador declared that “the government is trying to settle that problem as well as other problems. No doubt you know that there was a great anti-Semitic movement among the German population but the government is trying to settle the problem as well as possible.
“The trouble is,” said Ambassador Luther, “that foreign observers look at Germany from the viewpoint of the Jewish question. While it is true, as I said, that there is strong anti-Semitism among the Germans, still it must be remembered that the Jewish question is only a very small part of the questions faced by the German people. Germany is oppressed and curtailed by her international situation and the way out of the difficulties is not yet within sight.”
Dr. Luther declared that the chief benefit derived by the Germans from the new regime was the lessening of unemployment. “Unemployment in certain districts has been altogether wiped out,” he said.
“The aim is to eradicate all unemployment, just as you are doing here in the United States. But the general situation is much more difficult than in America.
“Above all remember that the revolutionary period in Germany is now over and that we are entering into a period of evolution. It should be realized that Germany has been saved from Communism, which was a grave menace in Germany, by the battles fought by Chancellor Hitler. Communism was not only a danger to Gerniany but to all the world.”
Dr. Luther was met at Quarantine by Dr. Joseph Leitner, counsellor of the German embassy in Washington.
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