Says Nazis Claim Even Jesus As Anti-semite

Doubts that Jesus was a Jew and certainty that he was the “first anti-Semite” are the latest expression of German anti-Jewish sentiment, according to the Rev. Dr. Ray Freeman Jenney, pastor of the Park Central Presbyterian Church and chairman of the Good Will Seminar of Central New York, who has just returned from a trip to Germany.

In a statement prepared exclusively for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Jenney discussed the “primitive ferocity” with which the Nazis are prosecuting their “frenzied” drive against the Jews.

“As a Christian,” he said, “I was particularly disturbed by the travesty being perpetrated on the Christian Church by the German Christian party. In an interview with Muller, who was a week later elevated through a mock trial to the office of Reichbishop, I was informed that there was some doubt about Jesus being a Jew, that he was the first anti-Semite and that he lost His life fighting against Judaism. When Sherwood Eddy declared that if a Jew has no place in the Christian religion, Jesus has no place in it, Muller answered, ‘Christianity was not born out of the Jewish religion but born out of a fight against it.’ In reply to the question, ‘How do you explain Hitler,’ the Reichsbishop said, ‘The secret of Adolf Hitler is seen by his very simple faith and confidence in God.’ Shades of Martin Luther and all the scholarly Christians that Germany has given to the world! Thus we see the Christian Church in Germany has fallen prey to the madness of Hitler who, it was claimed by one Nazi leader, is the ‘true Holy Ghost.’

“And on the occasion of the Jewish New Year it is my sincere wish that all religious faiths may unite in the safeguarding and extending of religious liberty, justice and the moral principles laid down by Jesus and the Prophets.”