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German Radio Seeks to Stir Anti-semitism in U.S.

August 15, 1940
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Nazi short-wave radio broadcasts to the United States and other countries have resumed their anti-Jewish attacks, berating Americans for permitting Jews to “control” many of their activities, broadcasts picked up by the Columbia Broadcasting System short-wave listening station disclose.

The broadcasts assail Jewish interests and personalities in this country, France and Britain and exhort Christians to “overcome” this Semitic influence in government and other activities.

“It sounds incredible that Jews should dare to speak, to act, to advise on the most important State affairs for Gentile Americans, who represent 96 per cent of the population, and who, in their great majority, decidedly do not wish to have any traffic with Jews,” one broadcast said. “Do Jews believe that it has come to the point where Gentile nations are helpless and cannot decide upon their own affairs and have to bow to the usurpation of Jewish masters?”

The broadcasts inveigh against former Premier Leon Blum of France, former Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff of Soviet Russia and former War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha of Britain, pointing out exultingly that these Jews “have been dismissed in a rather inglorious fashion in each country.”

The Nazis charge that both Dr. Solomon Goldman, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, and Dr. Emil Ludwig, noted German Jewish writer, have been guilty of war-mongering in this country against the Nazis.

The millions of unemployed in the United States are beginning to doubt whether the “well-being” of banks, “most of them Jewish,” is a real barometer of the country’s economic situation, the broadcasts state.

Contrary to “infamous atrocity stories” regarding their activities, the Nazis are practising “pure Christianity” by improving the lot of people under their jurisdiction, it is claimed.

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