National compatriots, in its fourteen-year struggle against the red and gold
International,
the National Socialist movement has constantly pointed out that
both Social Democrats and Jews have
invariably used their international
connections to harm the German people and to act against the German
homeland
before the war, during the war, and after the war. These historical
facts can be proven by a large amount of
incontrovertible evidence.
Today no one has laid a finger on a single Jew. When not one of
the many responsible
[italicized passages are very muted and hard to
understand] agitators of Social Democracy
[italicized passages are very muted and hard to
understand] has been held responsible, both
international Jews and international
[italicized passages are very muted and hard to
understand] Social Democrats use
their international ties and
connections in treasonous ways in order to have
lies and horror propaganda
against Germany
spread abroad in a manner that
defies description and is an unprecedented slap
in the face of truth. These
circles should know, however, that the meekness of a
national government may have
its limits and that the actions of both
international Jewry and international
Social Democracy may be turned into a
terrifying weapon by those involved in Germany
and will be
used to retaliate against the authors of these actions operating in foreign
countries. It will
retaliate if these organizations do not employ all means of
reporting the
truth about the situation in Germany and if they do not
use their influence
in order to put an end to this untrue, lost [05:20: unclear
(articulation)
perhaps: dishonest], and dangerous horror propaganda being spread
abroad. The
government’s counteractive measure will first consist in allowing
the
boycott campaign against Jews in Germany to continue as long
as foreign governments fail
to take any measures against the mendacious campaign
run by the Jews and the Social Democrats.
In our opinion, this will act as an
effective defense; that this
measure, like all measures by the NSDAP, will be carried out in
peace and with orderliness,
without violence, without laying a finger on anyone
is the natural
imperative of National Socialist, unfailingly practiced
discipline.
Exemplary [?] of this taste of Social Democrat mendacity is the outrageous agitation
in
America
and Paris by the
Jewish professor from Germany, Einstein.
Don’t try to tell us that you do not have any
influence on these circles from
here. If the will existed, it would have long
been possible for the German Jews,
apart from [...], names, declarations, I
would like to recall the declaration by Hamburg’s
Israelite community that they would use their foreign
connections
in order to ensure that the truth about Germany is being publicized
abroad. Here is striking evidence
that a well-known Jew from Germany stoops to
spreading
outrageous lies abroad. From this fact, too, follows the right and the
duty of the national government to
permit the counteractive measures by the
people’s movement until the
governments of those countries in which this horror
propaganda is being spread will do
what is necessary in order to calm things
down and acknowledge the truth. In his major speech
before parliament, Reich
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler has declared
that he wants to live in peace and unity
with the other countries of the world.
The dangerous ramifications of this agitation through
lies and horror
propaganda spread abroad become evident in an inquiry
made during Prime
Minister’s Questions in the English House of Commons. In this session, the
English Prime Minister
MacDonald was asked
in all seriousness whether he could confirm a report on the execution or
murder
of fourteen hundred [1.400] people in
Hamburg
alone.
When Hamburg’s Israelite
community ends its declaration
with the sniveling sentence: “With
God’s help German Jews will succeed at
overcoming antisemitism,” we can only
advise Hamburg’s Israelite
community
to make sure that all reasons and conditions which had
to lead to antisemitism
are eliminated posthaste. The required positive
measures should be taken by
Jewry in Germany on their own
initiative. For us there is no negative Jewish question, but
only one in a
positive sense. When the middle class today finds its existence dead and buried
while Jewish department stores are mushrooming everywhere, when Germany’s
academic youth, relegated to the ranks of the proletariat, waits for work to no
avail while
Jewry is represented in the legislature, medicine, and law in a
percentage
disproportionate to the Jewish population in Germany, one can
hardly call Germans’ demand for equality in their own homeland
Antisemitism. This demand made of the Jewish guests in our nation is an
inviolable and inalienable right of all German national compatriots. A few
short examples: According to information from the statistical office,
Hamburg’s Jewish population
represents 1.7% of Hamburg’s total
population, so less than 2%. However, at the
municipal court
the quota of Jews is 10%, at the provincial court it is 20%, at the
higher regional court it is 30%,
among senate presidents it is 50%, and among
attorneys it is 43%. Circumstances
are even worse among
physicians. In Hamburg’s [15:45] Medical Association, Jews,
who represent 1.7%
of the city’s population, are represented with 30.9%.
The skilled trades and
mid-size businesses are hurt by department stores through
the abuse of the
freedom of trade in a manner which, for the sake of justice
and protecting the
national economy, can no longer be quietly tolerated
in the future. Thus it is
not of the Jews, but
simply a matter of reestablishing equality for the Germans
in their own
homeland when it is demanded that in future, Jews should only
be represented in proportion to their share of the total population […]. As
NSDAP officer in
charge of the municipality of Hamburg, I want
to make it absolutely clear that the nature of
our legal measures will depend on the
manner in which [17:00] the horror propaganda against Germany spread abroad
will taper off. A word to Hamburg’s press on this matter: [17:10]
Radio Broadcast By Karl Kaufmann: “Against the Lies of Our Enemies about Supposed Events in Hamburg,” Reichssender Hamburg, March 29, 1933 (translated by Insa Kummer), edited in: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, <https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-94.en.v1> [December 21, 2024].
