Anti-Semitic utterances of the former German Kaiser are recorded in the memoirs of Estelle Blyth, daughter of the late Bishop Blyth who was for twenty-seven years Bishop in Jerusalem.
“When the German Kaiser visited Palestine he met my father,” Estelle Blyth writes in her book, “When We Lived in Jerusalem” which has just been published.
Recording the conversation of the Kaiser with her father, Miss Blyth writes:
“‘Do you believe in a future for the Jews?’ he asked fixing those bright blue eyes on my Father; and when my Father answered that he did most certainly believe in this the Kaiser exclaimed energetically, ‘I don’t agree with you at all! What future can there be for the people who crucified our Lord? There can’t be any future for them!’
“‘In our country,’ he said presently, the Jews have all the money; but they have not the same position there as they have with you.'”
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