The average German “still has refused to face the problem of Nazism squarely,” the Christian Science Monitor said today in an article on trends in German public opinion. It noted that “much in West Germany’s moral atmosphere is conducive to keep him in confusion and receptive to the blandishments of irresponsible individuals.”
The article, by Ernest S. Pisko, warned against a misconception that “a relapse into nazistic thinking will show in a campaign against the some 18,000 German and some 7,000 foreign Jews living in West German-/” or can be judged by the holding of seats in the Federal Parliament or State Diets.
“A campaign against the 25,000 Jews in Germany is not in the books – certainly not in their immediate chapters,” the article declared. “Most of these 25,000 are elderly people. They live in modest and in many cases less than modest circumstances. Only a few of them hold positions that could bring them to public attention.
NAZIS RESURRECT “WORLD JEWRY” CONSPIRACY
“The Nazis must be credited with sufficient intelligence to realize that it would not pay to concentrate on a group amounting to less than half a thousandth of the population and largely composed of obscure, economically and socially unimportant individuals.
“If the Nazis expect to reap any return from anti-Semitic propaganda,” the article commented, “It is obvious that they would have to resume whipping the old Hitler stand-by of ‘world Jewry’ and its conspiracy against the ‘Aryan race.” They have been doing just that. “
The writer cited an article distributed by a Stuttgart news agency which originally appeared in a Regina, Saski. German-language paper. This article purported to describe an alleged agreement involving Bernard M. Baruch, Sir Winston Churchill and Andrei Grotmyko for a division of the world into Communist and non-Communist spheres.
It asserted that “Mendes-France, connected with Baruch through race and common interest in international high finance, was assigned the task to carry out the arrangement in Indochina.”
The Christian Science Monitor commented that “Goebbels could not have invented a more ludicrous and poisonous story.” It added that similar stories are spread from Nazi centers in South America, South Africa and Spain. Nazi centers also exist in Belgium and Holland, the paper declared.
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