In the Parliamentary elections in 1930 our call was “No Thuringianising of Germany”, and Hitlerist Thuringia was wiped out, the “C. V. Zeitung”, the organ of the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, says in a call to its readers for the forthcoming elections to the Prussian Parliament. The result was that Thuringia became an episode, and Germany did not become Hitlerist.
The present Nazi slogan is a “Hitlerist Germany by way of Prussia”. That, too, must not be, the “C. V. Zeitung” says.
The anti-Jewish agitation will, we fear, be pushed very much into the foreground in the coming election campaign, the “C. V. Zeitung” warns its readers. We German Jews, it says, have never hesitated to give our sacrifices in the service and for the benefit of the Fatherland and the German people. But we shall not give our honour, our lives, and our economic existence as hostages to the Hitlerist Third Regime. Our Jewish honour and our German loyalty call us to action.
DEFEND JEWISH EMANCIPATION: THINGS CAN BE WORSE EVEN THAN THEY ARE: WITHOUT RIGHTS AND DEPRIVED OF HONOUR LIFE WILL BE MORE BITTER THAN UNDER DESPERATE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
We cannot, and we will not believe, the call goes on, that German Jews have grown cold to the need of defending Jewish emancipation, that they no longer think it is worth everything they can give, in effort, in time, and in sacrifice, to defend their emancipation. Many are forgetting that things can become worse even than they are now, and that to live without rights, and deprived of all honour is much more bitter than to live under desperate economic conditions. To prevent any diminution of our rights, every German Jew must stand firm on April 24th. and translate his wishes into deeds.
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