“Can you and do you want to separate yourselves from the German folk as a distinct racial and cultural entity? Do you seek valid forms by which you will be able to live true to your traditions which are different from ours?”
These are the questions Max Hildbert Boehm, German author, put to the Jews and which have peculiar significance in relation to von Freytagh-Loringhoven’s doctrine. And it finds the Jews divided into two camps whose views are given on this page.
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