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Do
a Proper Job on the Jews!
There
are various views on the ultimate aim and task of the
German-National (deutsch-voelkisch) movement regarding the
Jews. One believes that so-called explanatory work is all that is
needed; the next only wants to "eliminate" the Jewish
spirit from the "cultural" field; a third only from the
economy, and a fourth has other aims again, and all the opinions
become confused... Quite apart from this we consider that it is much
more urgent and necessary that the local groups should seek to
operate first of all on their home ground and to sweep away Ostjuden*
and Jewish vermin in general with an iron broom....
The
Ostjuden must be got rid of without delay, and ruthless
measures must be taken immediately against all other Jews. Such
measures might be, for instance, the immediate removal of Jews from
all Government employment, newspaper offices, theaters, cinemas,
etc.; in short, the Jew must be deprived of all possibilities to
continue to make his disastrous influence felt. In order that the
unemployed Semites cannot secretly undermine us and agitate against
us, they should be placed in collecting camps....
Voelkischer
Beobachter, No. 20/34, March
10, 1920.
*
Ostjuden The reference is to Jews who migrated from Eastern
Europe, particularly Poland, to Germany. Anti-Semitic propaganda in
the period of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic was directed
against these Jews. |
