English Refute Nazi Denials of Terror; Committee Publishes Booklet of Charges

The attempts of the German Government to minimize the extent of Jewish suffering in Germany are vigorously refuted in a publication of the Joint Foreign. Committee in conjunction with the Anglo-Jewish Association under the title of “The Persecution of the German Jews.”

“For satisfying the fair-minded that these allegations are wholly false,” the booklet, consisting of quotations from the most important British newspapers, contains irrefutable evidence in a number of questions:

First, that the systematic persecution of the Jews has long been a prominent feature of the Nazi program. It is untrue that the campaign against the Jews is in reprisal for Jewish criticism of the new regime in Germany. Its organized, premeditated attack was prepared through years of incessant anti-Semitic propaganda. The attacks have been against Jews as such, irrespective of whether they are Government opponents.

Second, that Jews have been victims of savage outrages and Nazi terror is not an invention but a well-authenticated fact.

Third, the civilized world was moved to protest not because this was circulated by Jewish propagandists, but because it was made known by newspapers of international reputation.

Fourth, although the Jewish boycott officially was not renewed, the anti-Semitic campaign, far from having ceased, has been intensified. The Government is deliberately attempting in cold blood to destroy the Jews by ejecting them from their occupations and making it impossible for them to earn a living and, at the same time, preventing them from leaving the country.

On the basis of annexed census statistics, the booklet exposes the myth about the flood of “Ostjuden” (Eastern Jews) into Germany, revealing actually that the post-war Jewish population is smaller than before the World War.

The booklet, consisting of five parts, deals with various aspects of the situation, including British opinion which has been aroused in protest.