(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Mathilda Kemnitz, formerly the wife of a Jewish banker and now the second Frau Ludendorff, has made her second appearance this week as an “authority” on the racial theory, the hobby of the rabid German anti-Semites.
In a “lecture” before the Tannenburg Bund, at which General Ludendorff occupied a seat in the front row, Frau Ludendorff let loose a series of anti-Semitic ravings. With an air of authority, the lady repeated the ridiculous charge of European anti-Semites, which was given circulation in America through Henry Ford’s “Dearborn Independent,” that “All Juda has brought about the World War in 1914 for the purpose of effecting a Jewish domination of the world.” Frau Ludendorff backed up this assertion with the absurd statement that the German word “Weltkrieg,” when written in Hebrew characters contains the figure 1914. The total of these digits amount to 15, signifying, she claims, Jehovah. “Jews, Free Masons and Jesuits are exploiting the League of Nations and other channels to secure world domination. Americans have renamed the German boat ‘Vaterland,’ the ‘Leviathan.’ This was done to indicate that American Jews will swallow the whole world,” she said.
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