If it were not utterly impossible to find work abroad, there would now be 1,000,000 German refugees, Jews and non-Jews, instead of the seventy or eighty thousand now in exile from Germany, the Manchester Guardian declared today in the second installment of a review of the persecution of the Jews in Germany.
Even if the persecution of the German Jews is not intensified, the Guardian predicted, two or three thousand Jews will voluntarily emigrate from Germany each year. The emigrants will be mostly young people, while the older generation prefers to remain behind to await death or suicide, the noted liberal journal said. Emigration and the declining birth rate among Jews will soon reduce the Jewish population of Germany to half, it added.
Although the physical and mental sufferings of the Jews cannot be ameliorated because they are far too great, nevertheless this stupendous disaster has produced a greater self-reliance among the Jews, the Guardian pointed out. It has led to an intensification of their inner life, and deepened their religious sense and passionate devotion to the permanent values inherent in Judaism, the article concluded.
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