Life of North American Jewry in Reivew

Adolf Hitler has a new apologist in America; Mrs. Martha Leach Turner, Ohio Wesleyan University graduate and wife of the pastor of the American Church in Berlin.

“Hitler’s attitude toward Jews has been both personal and political in Germany,” she explained to secretaries of the ten Y. M. C. A. branches here last Friday.

“Dr. Turner and I enjoy the confidence of the leaders of all classes in Berlin,” she said a little boastfull. “We are regarded by Hitler as ‘ueber-partie’ or above party. We are interested only in the facts that are bringing about this charge now in Germany. For the past four years we have been living right in the heart of events which have taken on a world wide significance. In talking to you today I simply want to give you the facts and let you draw your own conclusions. I have none to make myself,” Mrs. Turner declared.

“NATURAL OUTGROWTH”

Then she explained that Hitler’s treatment of the Jews of Germany was the natural outgrowth of conditions following the war.

“Hitler had a vision of a united Germany but was smart enough to know that he could not unite all the warring factions on reparations, war debts, the tariff or other current subjects. He therefore revived the idea of Nordic supremacy and Germany for Germans.

“With this positive idea came the negative one of recapturing from the Jews the power, wealth and prestige they had acquired since the war. You know what has happened. Hitler has seen that he went too far and has adopted a more moderate attitude toward the Jews but the latter has served the purpose for which Hitler planned.

“Germany today is a different nation than we knew when we went to Berlin four years ago. Her youth regards the ‘leader’ with something akin to awe and reverence. His word is law. He wants to fade from the picture when his work is done and Germany, as he says, again takes its place with the other great powers of the world.”