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1933:
A Protest Letter to President Hindenburg |
On 6 September 1933 the “Eisendrath Cousins
Club”, who the Club says is one the largest family groups
of Americans of German descent, wrote to the German President Paul
von Hindenberg, to complain about the treatment of “Germans
of the Jewish faith”.
“Because of my German ancestry, which goes back many centuries,
my concern and sense of justice, I appeal to you today to help the
German Jews who are being treated so miserably by some political
aspirants of your beloved country. Among the present rulers of your
country there are some who are spreading hate propaganda (against
the Jews)…. Through the attack they are out to gain the trust
of many people, particularly young people, and thus obtain political
influence.
»Vulgar machinations«
This campaign is directed by people who hide
their true character and their vulgar machinations under the cloak
of Christianity or German patriotism. These people are an insult
to both Christians and German patriots none of whom are responsible
for the insipid and extremely dangerous and deceitful political
clique. The world has now understood this and if you do not help
to remove this gross injustice, you will lose the respect of other
nations and all upright people...
People of the Jewish faith are, of course, just as much a part of
the Germans as the Catholics or the Protestants. Political stupidity
and immoral propaganda which try to claim the contrary cannot change
this. In Germany there are no better Germans than the Germans of
the Jewish faith, if a comparison is to be made…. A nation
which lends its name to injustice, cruelty, intolerance, narrow
mindedness and rashness will not be respected and is inevitably
doomed to decline and fall”
The
letter in full text.
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