Harry Greenstein, retiring adviser on Jewish affairs to the U.S. authorities in Germany, who has now returned to the United States, has warned of continued strong anti-Jewish sentiment among Germans in the official report on his mission.
“It is imperative that the occupying powers recognize in anti-Semitism a negation of the democratic principles and an unmistakeable sign of the resurgence of German nationalism in its most vicious form,” he said in his report. Education of the German people to democratic ways may take generations, he pointed out, but the degree of its success “may very well spell the difference between peace or war, a liberal or a reactionary world.”
Mr. Greenstein was welcomed back to Baltimore yesterday at a celebration in his honor at Hotel Emerson, sponsored by the Associated Jewish Charities and the Jewish Welfare Fund. He has been executive director of both for over 20 years.
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