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                <title type="main"><persName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/116637382">Otto
                        Armin</persName> (=Alfred Roth), The Jews in the Army. A statistical
                    analysis based on official sources, <placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7134067">Munich</placeName>
                    <date when="1919">1919</date></title>
            <editor role="translator"><persName corresp="kummer-insa">Insa Kummer</persName></editor></titleStmt>
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            <publisher><orgName>Institute for the History of the German Jews</orgName><email>redaktion@juedische-geschichte-online.net</email><address><addrLine>Beim Schlump 83, 20144 Hamburg</addrLine></address></publisher><availability><licence target="#personal-use"><p>With the kind permission of  the Institute for the History of the German Jews.</p></licence></availability><idno><idno type="DTAID">jgo:source-133</idno></idno></publicationStmt>
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                <p>Bibliothek des <orgName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/2013616-X">Instituts für die
                        Geschichte der deutschen Juden</orgName>, Signatur: AM Arm I</p>
            <bibl><author>Otto Armin (=Alfred Roth)</author><placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7134067">München</placeName><date when="1920">1920</date><orgName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/2013616-X">IGdJ</orgName><idno>IGdJ, AM Arm I.</idno></bibl></sourceDesc>
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                <hi rendition="#c"><hi rendition="#larger"><hi rendition="#b">Preface.</hi></hi></hi>
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            <p>
                What has been done to the German people by its enemies both on the<lb/>
                outside and within is an ignominy. It could only happen<lb/>
                because we forgot our German nature and no longer<lb/>
                knew what heroic strength and heroic disposition can achieve.<lb/>
                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
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            <p>
                <hi rendition="#right">It must no longer</hi>
                be concealed what everyone in <placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7000084">Germany</placeName> must know:<lb/>
                that a gnawing worm is eating away at our heart, that we have<lb/>
                nourished and groomed him ourselves until it had sucked the German marrow<lb/>
                out of our bones.
            </p><lb/>
            <p>
                The more the truth about the destiny of our people<lb/>
                becomes known, the more certain it is that the day of our liberation<lb/>
                from the unbearable yoke will come.
            </p><lb/>
            <p>
                <gap reason="insignificant"/><lb/>
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                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
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            <p>
                The <orgName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/2029819-5">Department of War</orgName> statistics are entirely reliable.<lb/>
                The observations made therein render a clear picture of circumstances<lb/>
                as they were on the reporting date of <date when="1916-11-01">November 1, 1916</date>.
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            <p>
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                <hi rendition="#g">
                    The incredible preferential treatment of Jews in the mili-<lb/>tary.
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            <p>
                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
                <pb facs="47" n="47"/>
                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
            </p><lb/>
            <p>
                If one seeks, as it is often done, to determine the losses<lb/>
                per capita among the population, the following picture emerges:
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            <p>
                while there is a population of 615,000 Jews in <placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7000084">Germany</placeName>,<lb/>
                only 6,000 Jewish soldiers have become casualties of the war,<lb/>
                that is <hi rendition="#g">less than 1% of the Jewish population</hi>;
            </p><lb/>
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                in contrast, the German population numbers 65 million<lb/>
                and there are 1.85 million fallen German soldiers, which <hi rendition="#g">is<lb/>
                    almost exactly 3% of the German population</hi>.
            </p><lb/>
            <p>
                In the face of these sound and irrefutable facts,<lb/>
                it takes the full insolence of Jewish dialectics to claim<lb/>
                that Jewish soldiers had to “fight harder and sacrifice<lb/>
                more blood” for their decorations than their Ger-<lb/>man 
                fellow soldiers; while it has been proven <hi rendition="#b">that for each fallen<lb/>
                    Jewish soldier at least 300 German
                    soldiers fell when,</hi><lb/>
                according to the population figures, there should<lb/>
                not have been more than a hundred German soldiers for each fallen Jew<lb/>
                if casualties had been the same! Yet the Jews in<lb/>
                their insane haughtiness dare to play fast and loose<lb/>
                with German suffering.</p><lb/>
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                <gap reason="insignificant"/><lb/>
                <pb facs="77" n="[77]"/>
                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
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            <p>
                If there is anything which can make everyone<lb/>
                clearly aware of the Jews’ immense influence on our<lb/>
                state, it is the events and schemes which eventu-<lb/>ally 
                led to the results of the <orgName ref="http://d-nb.info/gnd/2029819-5">Department
                    of<lb/>
                    War</orgName> statistic on Jews in the military <hi rendition="#g">being
                    fearfully kept secret from the pub-<lb/>lic 
                        and the fact that it has been impossible to<lb/>
                        this day to find out the least bit about it from a government<lb/>
                        office.</hi>
                <hi rendition="#b">This is how strong the fear of Jewish threats was and<lb/>
                    how dominant and omnipotent the position of Jewry was<lb/>
                    in <placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7000084">Germany</placeName> during the
                    war:</hi> <gap reason="insignificant"/>
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            <p>
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                <gap reason="insignificant"/>
                <hi rendition="#right">The fact<lb/></hi>
                that government offices allowed these things to happen as they did<lb/>
                has contributed in large part to German soldiers<lb/>
                increasingly imitating the example of Jewish shirking,<lb/>
                which eventually led to the corruption of<lb/>
                their willingness to fight and to make sacrifices<lb/>
                for their home country. <hi rendition="#g">Thus the Jewish el-<lb/>ement 
                    has proven its disintegrating power and its destructive effect<lb/>
                    in the German military as well.</hi> In doing so, it followed the in-<lb/>exorable
                laws of its nomadic nature, knowledge of which should<lb/>
                long ago have led the leading and responsible men in<lb/>
                <placeName ref="http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7000084">Germany</placeName> to assume a much
                clearer position towards Jewry<lb/>
                which does German interests justice. The fact that this did not<lb/>
                happen has played a major part in the German collapse,<lb/>
                if it wasn’t in fact the sole cause.
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