Report of Foreign Policy Association Gives Lie to Whitewashing of Nazis

A summary of events in Germany since the advent of the Nazis to pewer has been issued by the Foreign Policy Association in the form of a report, “The Jews in the Third Reich”.

The report, signed by Mildred S. Wertheimer, research associate, reaches the conclusion that the position of all non-Aryans in the Reich is precarious and that their “economic future is black.” It also stresses that the younger generation of non-Aryans will, “not only beunable to earn a living, but the educational opportunities open to them even now are strictly limited.”

“The Jews in the Third Reich” is carefully documented and references are given for every quotation used. It discusses in detail, The Brown Terror, the position of the Jews before the national revolution, the “Cold Pogrom,” the restrictions imposed by the new civil service law, “cultural” activities under the Nazis, commerce and industry and the refugee problem.

In addition there is a very comprehensive table of figures on the occupational distributions of Jews and non-Jews gainfully employed in Prussia, where one third of the German Jews live, which shows that the average percentage of Jews employed in various fields was only 1.06 per cent and that the number of Jews in public posts, on which the Nazis have laid so much stress, is only 32 of one per cent of the total number of officials.

The contention that no revolution was ever consummated with less bloodshed, is exposed as a sham in the report, which gives a number of instances to prove that the assertions of the Nazi leaders were meaningless and that violence against political opponents and Jews was carried out on a wide scale and continues to the present day.