We Do Not Seek to Persecute Mosaic Religion Says Hitlerist Spokesman: We Defend Ourselves Against Je

Captain Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man (who was received with him to-day by President Hindenburg) has outlined the Hitlerist position on the Jewish question in an interview with Signor Pietro Solari, the Berlin representative of the “Gazzetta del Popolo” of Turin.

The aim of the Hitlerist movement, Captain Goering says, is to revive German national life. The Nazi regime will allow no alliances between Germans and people belonging to the black and yellow races, nor between Germans and Jews. German citizens, men or women, who marry Jews or Jewesses, will automatically forfeit their citizenship rights in the German State.

The Jewish question is not fundamentally for us a theoretical question, Captain Goering continues. Nazism defends itself against the Jews. It does not persecute them. We defend ourselves against Jewry, not against the Jewish religion. In the Third Regime religious liberty will be complete for all confessions, which do not conflict with the customs and the moral feelings of the Germanic race.

It would be ridiculous to allege that we seek to persecute the Mosaic religion, which leaves us quite indifferent. We are defending ourselves against an element that is alien to our race, against a disruptive and poisonous element which has brought harm to the German people.

OUTBURST AGAINST JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM GALICIA AND RUSSIA: HITLERIST REGIME WILL STOP ALL FURTHER IMMIGRATION INTO GERMANY FROM ANYWHERE: JEWS IN GERMANY SINCE AUGUST 1914 WILL BE EXPELLED: GERMAN-BORN JEWS WILL BE REMOVED FROM PUBLIC POSITIONS: BUT DECENT ISRAELITE WHO WANTS TO REMAIN IN GERMANY UNDER ALIEN LAWS MAY CONTINUE HIS BUSINESS UNHINDERED AND WILL COME TO NO HARM

For a very long time, but especially since the end of the war, during the post-war period, Captain Goering proceeds, Berlin has become the centre of attraction for all Galician and Russian Jews. They have come here in hordes, with their lice and their caftans, possessed of nothing save an insatiable desire for acquisition. Berlin has become the filter of this mob. After a few months here they learn how to dress in European fashion, to speak German, and even to take baths. Most of them have done well here, and some have even become rich. They have left the East Side and gone to live in the West, and more than one who arrived at the Schlesische Railway Station in Berlin wearing his caftan, left after a few months via the Zoo Railway Station for London, Paris, or America, transformed into a European, shaved and scented.. But for every one who leaves, ten remain behind, and most of those who remain are the dregs who have not passed through the filter.

The Third Regime will enact legislation to prevent all further immigration into Germany from Poland, Russia, or any other country in the world. Those Jews who have immigrated into Germany since August 2nd., 1914 will be expelled. All Jews who have in any way insulted the German nation will be taken to the frontier, or they will be punished here according to the law for the crimes of which they are convicted. All those Jews who have not immigrated into Germany from abroad will be left here, but they will be removed from all public positions, in the press, the theatre, the film, the school, and the Universities. We shall also dismiss them from all public offices, cancel all their honours, and remove them from every position in which they may be able to exert their disruptive anti-national, international, or at best anational influence to the hurt of the German people.

It has been said that we shall kill the Jews. That is untrue. The decent Israelite merchant who wants to remain in Germany as an alien, under the protection of the aliens laws will be able to continue to pursue his business unhindered, and will will come to no harm.

SUCH ANTI-JEWISH FEELING REPULSIVE TO ITALIANS PAPER PRINTING STATEMENT COMMENTS

The “Gazzetta del Popolo” in printing this statement, comments editorially that “Fascist Italy, which knows the Jew as an excellent Italian citizen, is unable to understand such an outburst of anti-Jewish feeling. “Such enmity and the form of its expression are repulsive”, it says, “to the Italian”.