Foreign delegates attending Goettingen University’s bicentenary celebration yesterday heard Education Minister Bernhard Rust warn democratic nations that “they will come under the dictatorship of the Jewish race of world wanderers who know no fatherland.”
The Minister’s speech was the second principal address of the ceremonies, attended by representatives of only a handful of American colleges and boycotted by British institutions of higher learning. Swastika flags dominated the campus.
Earlier, Dr. Hans Heyse, known for his neo-pagan and anti-Christian sentiments, was chosen as orator on “The Character of the Scientific Academies in Europe” as spokesman for the faculty.
Dr. Rust, in his address, said:
“Those nations that prize personal liberty as their most valuable possession must today recognize that the end of it must be and always will be the most agonizing form of dictatorship, a dictatorship of the masses. In the end it means the destruction of national states.
“These nations will pay for this liberty with their own existence. They will come under the dictatorship of the Jewish race of world wanderers who know no fatherland.”
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