To: RON BL who wrote (192453 ) 10/16/2001 1:27:27 PM From: asenna1 Respond to of 769667 Here's a small sample to help prove the absolute ignorance of this statement - "Millions died because they did not have the courage to stand up for what is right." Mr. Michael Williams, editor of The Commonweal, president of the Calvert Association, and a member of the Committee appointed by the American Committee on Religious Reports and Minorities to go to Germany and investigate conditions published a report (New York Times of June 14th) of his own private visit, since the committees visit was postponed. He claimed to have spent "nearly" two weeks in Berlin interviewing members of the Hitler Government, leading business and professional men, both German and American, as well as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders. Not one single name is mentioned in his report. "One of the most prominent German political leaders"(?) told him that the outlawing of the Jews was a mistake comparable only to the invasion of Belgium at the outbreak of the World War. It is plain that such a remark, if it really was made, could be made only by a person equally hostile towards Germany as Mr. Williams himself. Maybe this interview took place at a concentration camp. When returning to America these people cry: Democracy is at an end in Germany. But they are anxiously concealing the truth that before Hitler came jewish democratic corruption has brought Germany on the verge of Communism. Such "Democracy" indeed is at an end now in Germany. All this excitement about democracy being at an end and about "persecutions" and outlawing of the German Jews who amount to but 1% of the total German population seems very strange indeed when compared with the calmness with which the world took the cruelty and terrorism of the Russian Revolution which, as everyone knows, was prepared and created by Jews and by jewish money. Too bad that Mr. James G. McDonald, chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, can find nothing better for him to do than to call upon all American Christians to step into line with Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, as I see from the New York Times of June 15th and July 11th. He too has recently been in Germany, and on July 11th the New York Times published his address in Chautauqua, N.Y. dealing with his visit in Germany and with the situation there as it existed more than three months ago, namely on April 1st, at the time of the (24 hours) anti-Jews boycott. The report in the paper was headed by the remark: Statements that Jews are not being cruelly treated in Germany were termed "an insult to the intelligence" by James G. McDonald. Thus the American Public is made to believe that Mr. McDonald is furnishing an up-to-date denial for all new reports about improving conditions in Germany. Such is the way matters about Germany are twisted in the American Press. Senator Wagner too has stepped into line with Rabbi Wise as I have noticed. I regret it, but I am convinced that many people have done so because of absolute misinformation about presentday Germany. People trying to argue in favour of Hitlerite Germany, as Mr. Bernard Ridder tried to do, are quickly being ridiculed as one may see from the New York Times comment of June 14th, and I doubt if the wellknown Radio announcer Douglas Brinkley who during his visit in Germany in Berlin Talkies expressed his admiration for Hitler and this new Germany ever again will be allowed to broadcast in America. The Berlin correspondents of the American Press fall in line with the above mentioned general attitude towards Germany. I suppose they have to in order to keep their jobs. This might be easy for them, since many of them are Jews and some are known to be hostile towards Germany long before Hitler ever appeared in front of German Public Life. Under such circumstances it seems plain to me that any viewpoint favourable for Germany would today not be considered by the big American papers, since jewish influence in the American Press is much too strong. letter from Karl Schottte, who was involved in promoting the Nazi cause abroad. He was with an organization in Berlin called "German American Press Correspondence." It is an attempt to persuade an American friend of Hitler's virtues. Letter to an American Friend, 7 August 1933