litical realignment on the part of leading Jewish personalities has become evident.
Thus Oscar Wassermann, chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency has affiliated himself with a National German Jewish group, which regards itself wholly German in every respect. This group holds that the Jewish and German interests are completely merged and that there can be no Jewish interest which is not German.
Herr Wassermann is one of five Jews who signed an election appeal issued jointly by a group of Nationalists, the Stalhelm and several radical parties. His co-signatories are two leaders of the National German Jewish group, Max Naumann and Justitzrat Siegmann; Advocate Fraenkel, and the industrialist Manfred Blochert.
In addition Georg Kareski, former president of the Berlin Jewish Community, is continuing his efforts in behalf of a Jewish Center Party Group.
The Central Union has restricted itself merely to advising Jews to vote only for such parties as have no anti-Semitic programs.
The Central Union has thus modified its more positive advice of last year when it called upon the Jews not to vote for the Nationalist Party candidates because the party excludes Jews from membership and adheres to the Aryan principle.
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