Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew in Every Walk, Trade, Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan

Copyright, 1933, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Daily Bulletin

When, in a recent speech, Adolf Hitler said that “not a hair had been touched on the head of a Jew in Germany,” and compared what is going on in Germany with America’s restriction of immigration, he was guilty of a disingenuity insulting to the general intelligence. There is no possible comparison between a policy of restricting immigration and one which removes rights from people who have been citizens for years. The United States had every reason to be outraged by the reference. It is not true, as has been previously shown, that no Jews have been mishandled in Germany. On the contrary, scores, and probably hundreds, have been treated in the most brutal fashion.

But far, far more serious than such sporadic acts of violence is a policy which restricts the entire Jewish population in the pursuit of its material existence. If this is not an atrocity, then the hunger blockade of Germany was not an atrocity. If it is not an atrocity to brand a whole people, without proof, as treasonable and undesirable for citizenship, then it was not an atrocity publicly to humiliate Germany by accusing her of sole responsibility for the war. If it is not an atrocity to deny to Jews equal opportunities with other members of the German population, then it is not an atrocity to deny Germany equal opportunities amongst the nations of the world. National Socialist leaders and publicists scoff at bourgeoise liberal-democratic ideas of justice, freedom, and human rights, but it might be pointed out that even the new German government, in its dealings with other nations, and in its campaign for its own prestige, still appeals to these ideals!

THE THREE WAYS OF FIGHTING JEWRY

It must be perfectly clear now, after the measures of the last weeks, that it is the aim of the National Socialist government utterly to destroy German Jewry. The means to be taken, however, are not to be those of the pogrom—not suitable to a country which believes itself to be civilized, but are what is called “cold cleaning up”. The Jews are to be fought in three ways: By the mobilization of public opinion against them, so that there will be a gradual and voluntary strangulation of their businesses; secondly, by a series of discriminatory laws which will force most of them to leave the learned professions, or will make it impossible for them to advance in them, and third, by preventing the coming generation of young Jews from obtaining higher education.

The possibility of creating a universal, mass anti-Semitism, a unanimously anti-Jewish public opinion could only, of course, exist under a dictatorship where there was no free expression of opinion. Such a dictatorship exists in Germany and has the press absolutely in its hands. A few newspapers, notably the German Nationalist “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”, and the formerly liberal “Frankfurter Zeitung”, which stands somewhat under the protection of the powerful Chemical Trust, still offer occasionally a mild criticism of government tendencies and policies. But for the rest, the press is absolutely servile, servility being the only condition under which it can exist. There is therefore no counter-movement to the anti-Semitism which is unremittingly propagated in the actual government press, notably the “Voelkische Beobachter” and the “Angriff”.

PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST JEWS INFLAMED

In these papers for years, and especially and most effectively since the elections on March 5th, every effort is made to inflame public opinion against the Jews. Every anti-nationalist statement ever made by a Jew is raked up out of the past and reprinted in an agitatory manner. Here, for instance, is a recent example from one of the National Socialist newspapers:

In the revolution days of 1919, the Jew Paul Landau said: If the