The Jews of Germany are determined to fight for their existence in that country against the terrific odds confronting them, although their weapons are primitive in the face of the “artillery” of their enemies, declared Rabbi Jonah B. Wise to a group of prominent New York Jews at a conference yesterday at the home of Felix M. Warburg, at which he reported his observations during a recent visit to the Reich to obtain first-hand information on the Jewish situation in Germany.
Rabbi Wise reported that 11,000 German Jewish refugees returned to Germany in 1934.
“Many of them,” Rabbi Wise said, “have been arrested by the secret police and put in concentration camps to learn the new ‘anschaung’ of Germany.”
Many of those who have returned to Germany constitute a very serious problem, Rabbi Wise said, emphasing that the German Jews are still in great need of relief.
Mr. Warburg, recently back from a short trip to Palestine, told
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