Naumann Group Dissolved by Reich

The Union of Nationalist Jewish Germans of which Dr. Max Naumann is the president was today officially dissolved by the German Government.

Dissolution of this organization, whose members were known abroad as the Jewish Nazis, marks another step in the program of the Hitler regime to stamp out efforts on the part of any German Jews to become assimilated with the “Aryan” population.

Dr. Naumann, who is in his sixties, has frequently voiced objection to the anti-Hitler demonstrations by Jewish organizations abroad and to the anti-Nazi boycott.

Known variously as a “renegade Jew,” “Black sheep Jew,” and by other even less complimentary terms, Dr. Naumann’s views were recently summed up by him in an interview published in “La Croix,” French Catholic daily.

Stating that he had submitted various projects to the German Government for the solution of the Jewish question, the man who aspired to the leadership of German Jewry was quoted as follows:

“We live in a time of transition that cannot last forever. We must distinguish between three kinds of Jews–Those who have lived long in Germany and have the feeling that they have always been German, the assimilated, and the Zionists. The great mistake was to make no distinction between these three groups. The solution of the Jewish question can come only through a ruthless inequality of rights between them. There were 500,000 Jews in Germany. Now there are probably still 450,000. Of these only 150,000 are capable of proving absolute patriotism. They alone should be fully included in the national community of Germany. The other 300,000 must be treated as aliens, that means that a beginning must be made to deprive them of their German citizenship. They may have the right to carry on their business in Germany, but the least attempt to interfere in its internal policy would result in their expulsion from the country, against whose laws of hospitality they would have offended.”