1500 years. Hitler’s spirit is infesting Germany, and Germany has therefore become more dangerous to the Jews than Russia was, because Hitlerism seeks to organize the whole world against us. This Czarist Russia did not do and not even benighted Spain.
“Not only German Jews but the Jews throughout the world must now arm themselves against Germany and stand on the watch to prevent Hitlerism from rooting itself in the various countries of the world.
“Hitlerism is an international plague and constitutes international danger for us. Because Hitlerism seeks to poison the atmosphere everywhere against us, we must everywhere stand on the watch.
“To vanquish Hitlerism, it is necessary for us not only to prevent the consummation of its plans, but we must take the offensive. And we have sufficient weapons against Germany. Many countries in East Europe are the best customers of Germany. The Jews in these East European lands are the largest consumers of German products. The peasants of Lithuania and Poland, Latvia and Roumania, need no German manufactures and do not buy them. But the middle class elements in these lands buy German manufactures and other products. The day will come when Jews throughout the world will refuse to purchase German products. Germany seeks to undermine our foundations, and we must assume both the defensive and the offensive. To take the offensive means to declare a boycott against German products. Of the 18,000,000 Jews throughout the world, 15,000,000 are buyers of German products. Should the Jews declare an economic boycott against Germany, Germany will fare much worse than if Roumania or Lithuania were boycotting her products.
“Jews throughout the world purchase more German products than do all the Balkan lands combined. The victory of Hitlerism in Germany must produce a general boycott of German products by Jews.
“This will be the concrete evidence of our changed attitude to Germany. This is the only language Germany will understand. The great German industrialists who aid Hitler financially and thus enable to carry on his campaign of vilification against us, will feel the loss of their enterprise resulting from an economic boycott by the Jews of the world. If the choice is presented to them of handing millions to Hitler and receiving millions from us, they will sober up. Then Hitlerism will collapse.”
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