(Editor’s note; Next Sunday, January 30, will be the 50th anniversary of Adolph Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany. Dr. Gerhart Riegner, secretary general of the World Jewish Organization, was then a 21-year-old law student, working as the assistant of a district judge in Berlin. In reply to questions from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s London correspondent, Maurice Samuelson. Riegner gives the following personal memories; of the birth of the “thousand-year Reich,” its immediate impact on the 600,000 Jews of Germany, his feelings about present-day Germany, and the anniversary’s lessons half a century later.
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