JEWS IN GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1932, Page 5

JEWS IN GERMANY

“DOWN AND OUT’’ Move to Counter Nazi Hostility (Au«. & N.Z. Cable Assn;. (Received August 15 at 9.5 p.m.) GENEVA, August 15. “Hitlerism will become a challenge and an offence against all Jewry unless it is speedily curbed. The Jewish forces must unite in self-defence,” said Doctor Joseph Tenebauni, the (’hairman of the American Jewish Congress, when speaking here at the Jewish World Conference. He added: ‘‘The Nazis are spreading anti-semitism in many countries!” He recalled that Jews had supplied over 17 per cent, of Germany’s Army in war time, and that 12 per cent, of that proportion are buried on the battlefields. Other speakers declared that the Jews in Germany were “down and out.” and that the chances of their recovery were lessened by the tendency to oust the Jews from the country’s economic life, combined with the poisoning of the minds of the youth of Germany. A Polish speaker said that the reason why so few Jews were attending this Conference was that they had become cowards. He added: “We have come here to launch a protest throughout the world against the present treatment of the Jews.” Doctor Motzik expressed the opinion that Palestine holds a future for the Jewish race. “When there are a million Jews there.” he said, “the enemies of the Jews would speak and act differently.”