The War’s aftermath has brought upon the Jews blame for all the ills of mankind, declared Herman Bernstein, editor of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, speaking at the Club forum of the Young Women’s Association last night.
Some “minions of autocracy and reaction,” he declared, “have blamed them for the War and others have blamed them for the peace. Some have attacked them for aiding the German military machine and economic structure, and others for the victory of the Allies. In Germany they were attacked soon after the war for having opposed the submarine warfare, and thereby assuring Germany’s defeat; while in some of the allied countries the Jews were denounced for constituting what they might have called the ‘brain trust’ of Germany.
“All revolutionary leaders were credited to the Jews and Communism was branded as a specific Jewish doctrine. And there was a time when certain German Jew-baiters in their blind madness went so far as to declare that the former Kaiser was not only influenced by Jews, but was himself of Jewish descent, and for that reason did not defend Germany as a loyal ‘Aryan’ should have done.
“Under Hitler, Judophobia has reached its most disgraceful climax.”
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