Hamburg Jewish Physician Says Belief Hitlerites Chief Anti-semites is Baseless

The American students of the Jewish faith, who want to go to study in the German universities, have nothing to fear as long as they themselves do not mingle in political affairs, declared Dr. Herman Kaufman, a Hamburg Jewish physician, who arrived here several days ago from Germany, in a lecture delivered Tuesday evening at the Woodstock Hotel.

Dr. Kaufman stated that the American Jewish student is respected in Germany as an American foreigner and that no harm will come to him as long as he does not participate in the political controversies of the country.

Dr. Kaufman declared that the popular assumption abroad, that the Hitlerists are the leading anti-Semites, is basically false, in an interview with a representative of the “Staats Zeitung.”

“The so-called anti-Semitic policy of the National Socialists”, Dr. Kaufman said, “aims mainly to adjust the influence of Jewry upon the life of the German nation in accordance with its population representation in the German nation. Germany has sixty million people, of whom six hundred thousand or one percent are Jews. Among those six hundred thousand are many who settled there a long time ago, who are highly respected and who always have and still play an important part in the official as well as in the social life of Germany.

“On the other hand,” he asserted, “Jewish immigrant element, the so-called ‘Ost-Judentum’, has, especially during the inflation period, invaded our large cities, principally, Berlin, Leipzig and others. Our respected German citizens of the Jewish faith have nothing in common with them but religion. The Hitler party opposes infesting of the German nation with these elements.

“As to the latest reports from abroad, in connection with fights between National Socialists on one hand, and Communists and Socialists on the other, – controversies which, in those reports, were described as anti-Semitic outbursts on the part of National Socialists – I, as a Jew, wish to emphasize that they were purely political demonstrations.

“Hitler’s assistant, Mr. Strasser, himself recently stated in a radio speech, that his party opposes all Jewish persecutions and that it would never permit Czaristic pogroms, or similar riots in Germany. I can, with all truthfulness, state that the Jewish scholar, the physician, the artist, the businessman, the artisan, in Germany and in Austria, can perform his business undisturbed just as the Jewish student, especially the American, can go about his studies undisturbed.

“It seems that in the cabled reports to America, there was not sufficiently emphasized the fact that the reported demonstrations were not directed against the Jew as a believer of another religion, but against his political views, Look at the American Socialists and Communists and you will see how many of them are immigrant Jews, especially aliens. Consider the American so-called radicals and you will realize that also among them is a very great percentage of those elements whom our National Socialists oppose,” Dr. Kaufman declared.