The Yorkshire Post declares in an editorial on Passover that Germany’s treatment of the Jews was not the least in the catalogue of Nazi misdeeds “which cries to heaven for retribution.”
“If the Jews enter upon the solemn rites of Passover tomorrow with bitter memories of the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of certain so-called Christian states, they may takes heart at the comforting thought that always they stand beside the grave of their persecutors,” the editorial said. “For three thousand years they have celebrated their release from the bondage of the Pharaohs to find themselves under yokes equally cruel and crushing. If the Assyrians, Egyptians and Romans, their ancient oppressors, vanished from the earth, the German and Russian have risen to carry on the old grim program of savage persecution. If the opening of Palestine seemed a portent of hope, the hand of Nazi Germany laid heavily on them.”
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