Nazis Have Not Reached Zenith of Their Power Says Dr. Wallach Vice-president of Central Union of Ger

The Nazi movement has not yet reached its zentith in Germany and even more sweeping victories are predicted for the Nationalist Socialists as long as the present crisis prevails, Herr Ernest Wallach, Vice-President of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, who is now on a visit to the United States, said in an interview with the J.T.A. here.

Those who believed that the Nazis had reached their summit with the elections of 1930 are now disillusioned, Herr Wallach said. The National Socialists may achieve extraordinary victories in all the elections wherever they occur – in states, districts or communal legislatures.

The so-called middle parties, Herr Wallach explained, are steadily being relegated to the background. The reason for this, he said, is that the middle parties, unlike other parties in Germany, do not represent certain definite classes with specific limited interests. The voters, who seek representation for their specific interests are gradually estranging themselves from the middle parties and support those parties which make the most radical promises.

The largest group in Germany to-day, he went on, consists of the most hard-pressed elements who believe that there is no way out of the present economic depression. For that reason a party with a sense of responsibility, which refuses to make promises which it cannot later fulfil, does not receive any support at present. The voters swerve to the radical wings of both the “Right” and “Left” parties, where they are told that only the destruction of the present system can remedy the situation,” he said.

Discussing the position of the Jews in the light of the present political developments in Germany, Herr Wallach said that German Jewry has largely been dependent for the maintenance of its rights upon the battle waged on its behalf by the Central Union. “The Central Union, which has conducted a battle for Jewish rights for forty years will not permit itself to be dismayed by the new tremendous difficulties of the present moment”, he declared.

The Central Union does not fight a party battle or against party programmes whether they be “Right” or “Left” in tendency, he said. It is concerned simply with the protection of Jewish rights.

The extent to which the Nazi movement endangers these rights, he explained, may be seen from an address delivered by the Nazi Deputy, Gregor Strasser, on October 23rd., when he interpreted the Nazi ideas of a Government policy as follows:

A National Socialist Government in Germany means that the rule of Jews in Germany is at an end; the expulsion of the Jews from every field of endeavour. The first Nazi Minister spells the end of Jewry in Germany.

It is the aim and the endeavour of the Central Union to bring about such a policy in Germany whereby Jewish citizens will be enabled to remain and work wherever duty and inclination summon them, Herr Wallach continued, a state of affairs under which the Jew as a Socialist should be able to join Socialist parties without having the appellation “Jewish Marxist” flung at him; whereby the liberal-minded Jewish citizen should be permitted to vote for a Party of the Centre, and the Conservative Jew, for a Conservative Party. At present there is not a single Conservative Party in Germany to which a self-respecting Jew can belong.

The Central Union has been fighting for some time to the end that Jews need no longer engage in political combats since the question of their equal rights is not now dependent upon Parliamentary equilibrium, or Government coalitions and is no longer subject to political victories or defeats.

In this aim, moreover, he concluded, the Central Union is in harmony with the majority of the German people to whom the well-being, and the inner peace of the German nation and father land is of paramount importance.