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"Tell
the Jewish leaders that this is no case for politics or
tactics. Tell them that the earth must be shaken to its
foundations, the world must be aroused. Perhaps then it will
wake up, understand, perceive. Tell them that they must find
the strength and courage to make sacrifices as painful as the
fate of my dying people, and as unique. This is what they do
not understand. German aims and methods are without precedent
in history. The democracies must react in a way that is also
without precedent, choose unheard-of methods as an answer. If
not, their victory will be only partial, only a military
victory. Their methods will not preserve what the enemy
includes in his progress of destruction. Their methods will
not preserve us....
"You
ask me what plan of action I suggest to the Jewish leaders.
Tell them to go to all the important English and American
offices and agencies. Tell them not to leave until they have
obtained guarantees that a way has been decided upon to save
the Jews. Let them accept no food or drink, let them die a
slow death while the world is looking on. Let them die. This
may shake the conscience of the world....
"This
we did not intend to tell you, but I want you to know it. We
do not demand such sacrifices from our leaders abroad out of
cruelty. We expect to make them here ourselves. The ghetto is
going to go up in flames. We are not going to die in slow
torment, but fighting. We will declare war on Germany the most
hopeless declaration of war that has ever been made...."
J.
Karsky, Story of a Secret State, Boston, 1944, pp.
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