Declaring that repudiations of Nazi atrocities were forced from Jews at bayonet points, Rabbi Julius Mark, writing in the current issue of the Jewish Layman on “The Plight of the German Jew,” ascribed persecution to Hitler rather than the German people.
Recently returned from Germany, Rabbi Mark asserted that “if the German people were not kind hearted at the bottom, not a single Jew would be left alive in Germany today.
“For the past fourteen years Hitler has carried on one of the vilest, meanest, basest campaigns against the Jews. He told the Germans, You didn’t lose the war; you were stabbed in the back by the Communists and Socialists especially the Jews!”
Rabbi Mark urged support of the Joint Distribution Committee, ORT, HIAS, the Zionist Organization and the Boycott Committee in their fight for German Jews.
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