ADMIRATION FOR THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMANY TEMPERED BY REJECTION OF ITS RACIAL THEORIES IS VOICED BY SVEN HEDIN, NOTED GEOGRAPHER AND TRAVELED IN HIS BOOK “GERMANY AND WORLD PEACE,” PUBLISHED HERE TODAY.
“INTERBREEDING BETWEEN RACES DOES NOT RESULT IN DEGENERATION,” HE WRITES. “JEWISH BLOOD IS EXTRAORDINARILY VALUABLE.”
HEDIN REVEALS THAT HIS GRANDFATHER’S GRANDFATHER WAS A GERMAN JEW NAMED BRODE WHO CHANGED HIS NAME TO BERLIN AND WAS BAPTIZED IN SWEDEN IN 1771. HE VALUES THIS SIXTEENTH PART OF JEWISH BLOOD IN HIM, HEDIN WRITES, AND SHOULD NOT LIKE TO BE WITHOUT IT.
ACCORDING TO SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS, A GERMAN TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK IS READY BUT THE MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA DEMANDS DELETION OF THE OBJECTIONABLE PASSAGES, A DEMAND WITH WHICH HEDIN HAS REFUSED TO COMPLY.
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