Leilão Bidspirit | ”Hitler and Israel the War

”Hitler and Israel the War of the Races” - the early call of the French Ambassador about the danger of Nazi Germany. France, 1934 - LES GRANDES CONFERENCES DES AMBASSADEURS. HENRY BERENGER... HITLER ET ISRAEL LA GUERRE DES RACES - Transcript of the historic speech of Henry Bérenger, Ambassador of France, President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, represented by the S.D.N. at the great conference of ambassadors, which was held in Paris on November 18, 1933, On the subject: ”Hitler and Israel, the war of the races”. The speech, in which he warned most sharply of the impending danger due to the fact of Hitler's rise to power, called on the moderate currents in France not to cooperate with Nazi Germany in any way. Editions des Ambassadeurs I Avenue Gabriel, Paris, 1934, French. Only edition. In his opening remarks, Bérenger details the harsh facts that many did not knew, or ignored, regarding Hitler's terrorism since Hitler came to power earlier that year. It tells of 80,000 refugees who fled Germany that year, including more than 35,000 Jews who immigrated to France and received safe refuge there. He regrets that France did not do enough to stop Hitler at the beginning of his career, while Hitler spoke out strongly against the Jews, and complains that France did not take seriously the possibility that Hitler would succeed in seizing power. He briefly reviews the beginnings of Hitler as an average person and less, who engaged in art and could not even be accepted as an artist in an art gallery, and then inevitably engaged in house painting. And how the First World War in which he was drafted made him the spokesman for the ”frustrated crowd.” Bérenger criticizes the French politicians who in those days tried to negotiate with Hitler, and writes that his words are not to be believed as if he were interested in peace alliances in the region. Bérenger analyzes in depth the roots of German anti-Semitism by quoting things written and said against the Jews in the writings of the great German thinkers. For example, he quotes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who wrote after the French Revolution that even if the Jews were granted equal rights, Jewish marriages with Germans should not be approved, the famous German philosopher Emanuel Kant who called the Jews a ”nation of merchants and thieves”, The philosopher Fichte who wrote: ”Judaism is the non-existent 'state' that threatens all European countries”, the philosopher Hegel who placed Jews at the bottom of the racial ladder, and Schopenhauer who wrote: ”Jews who have no citizenship should not be granted civil rights anywhere.” And also quotes antisemitic passages from Walter's books. Using these quotes, Bérenger analyzes the fact that in those days surprised all of humanity - how Adolf Hitler came from an average person with only seven close associates, to ten million supporters in just a short 18 months. The Hitler government simply turned into a realistic law the anti-Semitic ideology that was deeply ingrained in the writings of the great German thinkers. The complete abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and the solution to the 'Jewish question' in the form of the clause: ”Only those with German blood” are allowed to be citizens, is a reflection of a long-standing ideology in Germany. Hitler with his average skills could never have persuaded the German people to agree and express support if the German people were not capable of hating the ancient Jews. He then describes the terrible condition of German Jewry in those days - after Goebbels' speech in which he read: ”We must kill the Jews like fleas”, what was done in practice - Jewish doctors accused of abusing Christian clients, Jewish children in mixed schools being bullied every Day because they can not prove that they are Aryans, Jewish civil servants fired from their jobs, daily false accusations are made against innocent Jews as if they abused Christian women, brought them to justice, and hasty sentencing in the form of punishment or deportation, in Breslau Jews caught in the street, accused of false theft, Miss. , Co-operation, etc., and shootings to death. Concentration camps are being set up for ”opponents of the regime” in order to prepare them for the deportation of Jews, which already has 75,000 people, non-Aryan shops goes to the ”black list”, closure orders for Jewish shops are issued daily, and more. And repeatedly calls on liberal France to recognize the severity of things, and not to hesitate to go out immediately to protest and not to cooperate with Germany in any way. Interestingly, among other things, Berenger writes that on one occasion he had a long conversation with Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels in Geneva, where he asked him what the Jews had done to Germany that he hated so much. Goebbels replied that the numerical ratio between the Jews occupying key positions in Germany was not at all the same as the relative proportions in the population.