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What Stalin Said About Jews Quoted in New Feuchtwanger Book

July 29, 1937
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JOSEPH STALIN WAS QUOTED BY LION FEUCHTWANGER TODAY AS DECLARING, “YOU JEWS HAVE CREATED ONE ETERNALLY TRUE LEGEND — THAT OF JUDAS.”

THE REMARK WAS MADE, FEUCHTWANGER SAYS IN HIS NEW BOOK, “MOSCOW, 1937,” DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH STALIN IN MOSCOW WHEN THE SOVIET DICTATOR BECAME EXCITED IN THE COURSE OF DISCUSSING THE TRIALS OF TROTSKYISTS.

“IT WAS STRANGE TO HEAR A MAN OTHERWISE SO SOBER AND LOGICAL UTTER THESE SIMPLE AND EMOTIONAL WORDS,” DECLARES THE EXILED GERMAN WRITER.

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