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OFF THE RECORD—by Nathan Ziprin
Clouds On The Horizon
The mounting frequency of
anti-Semitic incidents in Ger
many has long been the concern
of the Jewish community in
that country and of watchful
Jewish eyes everywhere. Now
the ugly sore has broken out to
a point where it has reached
the attention of top-echelon
Bonn officials, including Chan
cellor Adenauer himself, who
promised, according to press re
ports, firm action toward the
surcease of further anti-Semitic
manifestation. The fact that the
Chancellor personally interced
ed in the matter lends credence
to the view that the undercur
rent of anti-Semitism in Germany
can become an inundating tor
rent if it remains unchecked. It
had been hoped that time and
awareness of the immensity of
Hitler’s crime would at least
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condition all of the German
people into a sense of shame if
not outright contrition, but it
now seems that the promised re
formation of a nation whose soil
gave birth to the monster that
was nazism is still tragically re
mote. It appeared for a time that
the impact of the Anne Frank
Diary was serving to awaken
the German people to the need
of long tortuous soul-cleansing.
But unfortunately there still are
elements in the Country who
would emulate Hitler if given
the opportunity. More painful
than the situation itself is the
fact that many of the proponents
of hate are in positions where
they can make their views felt.
The immediate spur to action
by Chancellor Adenauer was
disclosure that the Federal Su
preme Court had declined ap
pellate jurisdiction in a case in
which a Hamburg court dismiss
ed complaints against two anti-
Semitic pamphleteers when the
evidence and the facts showed
clearly that the men were
guilty of violating the law. The
court in Hamburg did not re
ceive any evidence controvert
ing the charge or challenging
the credibility of the facts be
fore it, yet it arbitrarily dis
missed the complaint and let the
men go free on the basis of a
legalistic hair-splitting act that
has left the decent world gap
ing in disbelief.
Among the “gems” the ac
cused tried to peddle off was
such trash «« that “the immense
lie about the gassing and slaugh
ter of 6,000,000 Jews by the
Germans under Hitler is as con
tradictory as possible” and that
“the entire manuever of destruc
tion was an , action launched by
secret representatives of inter
national Jewry.” Apart from
denying the nazi crime of the
ages, the hate-peddling pamph
leteers urged the elimination of
Jews from all public and quasi
public jobs. If ever there was
a clear case of violation of law,
this was it. The men convicted
themselves by written evidence
they did not and could not con
trovert. But in the year 1959,
less than two and a half dec
ades after the lifting of the
curtain of the most heinous
crime wave ever indulged in by
man, we find Germany’s judi
cial system virtually giving a
seal of approval to a design that
has been aped from Hitler’s
bloody pattern. The court’s con
tention that the accused men
were aiming their wrath at
“international Jewry” and not
at the Jewish people was as
dishonest as it was odious. When
the judiciary of a country can
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indulge in that kind of insane
sophistry as basis for dismissal
of a complaint against avowed
and self-confessed anti-Semites,
the situation is more than alarm
ing. For when the courts con
done crime and disobedience of
law when Jews are the victims,
the omens can be truly frighten
ing.
There are strong democratic
forces in Germany and in Chan
cellor Adenauer the Jewish peo
ple and Israel have’ a faithful
friend. But if the anti-Jewish
manifestations are not halted
firmly and with speed, the sit
uation could get out of hand,
particularly in the troubled days
that lie ahead for the world.
There is no inclination among
thinking, rational Jews to blame
the German people as a whole
for the hate resurgence in their
midst, even though we shall not
forget what befell our people at
German hands until the very
day of resurrection and judg
ment. For that very reason it is
incumbent upon them to weed
out the evil in their midst and
to obliterate the rotten roots
into very extinction.
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4f the Paris office of the
American Jewish Committee had
in recent years not been so im
peccable in its reports on the
Jewish situation abroad, parti
cularly in the Soviet Union, we
would be inclined to question
the authenticity of its most re
cent disclosure about Moscow’s
plan to revive the Biro-Bidjan
project as a devious device to
achieve and justify extinctibn
of all remnants of Jewish life
in the Soviet Union. If the re
port i$ accurate, the concern of
the American Jewish Commit
tee for the “future of Soviet
Jews” must extend beyond the
doors of the organization. Ac
cording to the report, the plan
for a large-scale movement of
Jews to Biro-Bidjan envisages
making all Soviet Jews mem
bers of a “territorial nationality”
with a view to denying them
“their cultural and other rights
outside of Biro-Bidjan.” '
In simple semantics this means
that the very Jews who a year
or two ago were characterized
by Nikita Khrushev as lacking
in the character traits making
for collectivist living would now
be ordered to settle in Biro-Bid
jan or face the risk of losing
whatever status they now have,
if any. Conceivably the project
ed plan has another objective—
to establish a “rival” Jewish
state to Israel and thus counter
the exit aspirations of the vast
majority of Soviet Jews. Its
true purpose could be to divert
the Jewp in the Soviet Union
from their struggle for “hem-
schech,” continuity, through re
linking with vital Jewish roots.
That something of the kind is
in the air is evident from the
sudden interest in Biro-Bidjan
that has recently come to the
surface in the Soviet Union and
among the communists in the
free and satellite lands.
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