Virulent anti-Semitic books, including Dr. Alfred Rosenberg’s “Protocols of the Elders of Zion and World Politics,” the late Theodor Fritsch’s “Manual of the Jewish Problem” and Dr. Guenther’s book “Ra#iclogy of World Jewry,” today had been added to the list of books for use in German public schools. Dr. Bernhard Rust, Nazi Minister of Education, issued the order.
It is thought that the inclusion of these notorious anti-Semitic books in the list of books used by children in the schools is the direct result of the appeal recently issued by the Nazi firebrand, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, asking Germans to read books by Nazi authors and to help develop the “new German literature.” Dr. Goebbels recalled the fantastic bonfire of last year in which the books of all Jewish and liberal writers were burned. He urged Germans to build a literature, “just as they had destroyed one. “
Use of the books named, it is held, will poison the entire generation of German school children, who may grow up ignorant of the fact that the anti-Jewish material they have read has been completely discredited in the outside world.
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