Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland. Reports of the torturing to death of one Otto Lenz, Jewish storekeeper in Straubing, Bavaria, seemed authentic. Far more common than actual attacks on Jews was their dismissal from government and business posts and the picketing and boycotting of their stores. Nazi picketing was not limited to Jewish shops. U. S.-owned Woolworth...
...result of our own insistence. That such a government reacts to the sharp disadvantage of unorganized minorities, or is, in other words; the domination of the majority in their own interest, Aristotle himself was not slow to realize. Unfortunately, the majority of Germans support a regime which dislikes the Jewish race and its power in Germany. The majority of Americans once supported a regime which believed that the negro race was divinely predestined to slavery...
...fact that modern democracies have insufficiently represented minorities. Were the less numerous and more enlightened factions to have true proportional representation in the United States, in Germany, and in England, political and social injustice to negroes, Jews, and Irish might be sanely ameliorated. Even if one excludes the Jewish control of the American press from the question, and accepts uncritically the prevailing reports of the Nazi atrocities, the present state of world political evolution makes any attack on Germany alone the most offensive vauntings of hubris...
...despite these arguments, it is hard to escape the conclusion that his procedure will prove in the end to have been short-sighted and unwise, For Holy Russia tried this experiment before, during, and after the World War, and the result was disastrous. Some of the best Jewish brains were driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect...
Death to Marxism! With Jews still being beaten and Jewish stores raided or closed throughout the Reich last week, non-Jews gradually recovered a feeling that any further Nazi violence would almost certainly not be directed against them, unless they happened to be Marxists...