“Justifying” the attitude of the Hitler government toward the Jews and dismissing Germany’s loss of many Jewish and liberal German leaders in science, literature, and art, the German Outlook, English-language section of the Deutsche Zeitung, organ of the Nazi Party in the United States, editorially states:
Everyone who is convinced that a nation is an organic entity and not a chance accumulation of individuals must consider it a national disaster when he sees that an alien race (the Jews) has acquired so commanding a position that it can control the cultural, political, and economic interests of the nation. This is the situation that had actually developed in Germany during the last few decades owing to the ascendancy of the Jews.
“If a national regeneration was to take place it was essential to ensure that the power wielded by the alien minority should be broken. The racial differences between Germans and Jews are too great to make compromise possible.
“… They (the Nazis) quite realize that one of the consequences of their uncompromising fight against the Jews and political opponents is the lasting antagonism to the new regime of a number of leading intellectuals. Their regret at this development is not so great as might be thought; because it is felt that-if these men, no matter how prominent they may be in their particular spheres of thought, refuse to identify themselves with the process of national regeneration the nation can well spare their collaboration.”
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