George Bernard Shaw believes that Chancellor Hitler’s persecution of the Jews in Germany and crusade against Russia provide a much greater risk for “the undoing of German Fascism” than the scrapping of the Versailles and Locarno treaties.
The noted author and playwright has added two new chapters to his book. “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism,” to cover Fascism and “Sovietism.” In a chapter on the former he says:
“There are some curious exceptions to the rule that Fascism cannot plunder the rich. Fuehrer has plundered the Jews and made it a crime to be a Jew in Germany. But he has had to leave their jobs and their belongings to be exploited by German employers who are sweating the German proletariat as rapaciously as any Jew.
“By making the Jews and their friends his enemies and trying to organize a European crusade against Russia (the grave of Napoleon’s greatness) the Fuehrer has run a risk which may prove the undoing of German Fascism: certainly a much rasher risk than tearing the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno pact.”
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