The greatest sufferers from Nazi persecution in Germany are neither the wealthy nor the humble Jews, but those who are neither wealthy nor humble, that is, those of the intellectual and professional classes, according to the Paris correspondent of the New English Weekly.
“The real sufferers,” he concludes, “as I know after months of contact with Jewish refugees in Paris, are those Jews who held prominent positions in art, law, medicine, music, the theatre, science, literature, and civil service.” But they themselves, he adds, are partly to blame for their predicament, “for they should have known better and not have played the part of blind patriots up to the hilt.”
“The Jews, who have been deprived of their places in the Reich, were the staunchest defenders of Germany–defenders who during the war lost 12,000 of their own people,” the writer continues. But their best and ablest defense of Germany took place after the war. Immediately after Versailles, they came out and tried to excuse their countrymen.
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