Vienna Hakenkreuzler Papers Attack Count Coudenhove Calergi, Pan-europa Chief, for Article Condemnin

The Hakenkreuzler papers yesterday attacked Count Coudenhove Calergi, leader of the Pan-Europa movement, for a recent article of his in which he condemned Germany as the world center of anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitic papers charge that Count Coudenhove Calergi is not a real German but a mixture of Asiatic, Pan-European and African stock who strives to create a racial mixture and destroy the racial purity of the healthy German and North American people for whom anti-Semitism is the instinctive reaction to poisonous Judaism.

In the article for which the Count is being so bitterly condemned he said, “Before the war Russia was the centre of world anti-Semitism; today it is Germany.

“Outside of Germany, anti-Semitism in Europe still manages to live only in a few middle-sized and small states of Eastern Europe. This situation should give German anti-Semites some food for thought, since three other leading nations of Europe have renounced anti-Semitism. Since Disraeli, England has had among her political leaders many Jews and knows neither political nor social nor economic anti-Semitism. France overcame its anti-Semitic phase with the Dreyfus affair. This renunciation of anti-Semitism came simultaneously with the national regeneration of France which gave it strength to survive the world war. The extremely nationalistic Italy too has renounced anti-Semitism, which in the eyes of Mussolini is a barbarous prejudice, and Italy has shown that a nation can rid itself of communism without indulging in anti-Semitic slogans and that the extremest nationalism can exist without an anti-Semitic coating.

“Meanwhile Germany leans strongly towards anti-Semitism and erects one theory after another on the basis of this prejudice. It still continues to maintain that Jewry has only produced talents, but no geniuses, although the most recognized of living geniuses today is the German Jew, Albert Einstein, and the most noted living Austrian is a second Jew, Sigmund Frend. Others build theories of Jewish ‘materialism’ and ‘mammonism’ and fail to see that no people have ever suffered so much and so long for its beliefs and its ideals as the Jewish people, that the Jewish communities revere less their richest than they do their wisest and most learned members; that in Jewry, in spite of its realism, there exists an overwhelming amount of idealism, an idealism so strong as to give the world both Christianity and Socialism.

“The argument that the whole world is united in its hatred towards Jews, is one that no German should use. For in the first place, this is not true; anti-Semitism is no world phenomenon any more, but limited to certain territories. And secondly, the German people has during the world war, from its own experience realized how unjust even the hatred of an entire world can be towards a whole nation.”