All German Jews will vote this Sunday in the election called by the Nazis to approve of the foreign policy of Hitler, but not all Jews will vote for the list of candidates headed by Hitler himself.
Many race-conscious Jews are determined to draw a line of demarcation because they feel that it would be insincere for any Jew to vote for the Nazi candidates, especially since Hitler, in his recent speeches declared, “if any Jew will praise me, I will know it is a sign that there is something wrong with me.”
Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck, president of the Reichsvertertung der Deutsche Juden, the All-German Jewish Representative Body, issued a call to German Jews to go to the polls Sunday.
“The right which we have to participate in the elections, obliges us to go to the polls,” he declared.
Rabbi Baeck emphasized the fact that the present elections really do not matter because “it is God who is actually appointing. Only those elected by God will remain,” he concluded.
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