Despite the fact that Jews who have embraced Christianity do not enjoy any more rights than the unconverted Jews, missionary activity among the German Jews will continue, Pastor Loerzen, acting leader of the German Christian movement announced today. The German Christians are the Nazi group within the German churches that has just gained control and “coordinated” the church with Hitlerism.
Pastor Loerzen declared that the aim of the German Christians in their policy towards the Jews was to establish a religious ghetto for the Jewish Christians. He urged complete separation of the Jewish Christian communities from the German communities.
He stated that the Jewish Christian faith would be fully respected, but said that Jewry must adopt the new German spirit which requires the strictest separation of the different Christian churches along racial lines. This separation would lead to reconciliation between all the churches and create a feeling of brotherhood, he declared.
At the same time the Reich Union of non-Aryan Christians issued a dramatic appeal urging all Christian non-Aryans to unite and deploring their complete isolation and helplessness and pointing out that the German Jews have been helped to a large extent by world Jewry.
It is significant that a special point on the race question has been placed on the agenda of the Nazi Congress which meets in Nuremberg on September 1, following the address of welcome by Julius Streicher, notorious Jew-baiter and editor of Der Stuermer, Nuremberg anti-Semitic sheet.
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