Liberal Forum

Now, the Jews sort of tried to keep the lid on this fact. They didn't want the world to really understand
that they had sold out Germany, and that the Germans resented that.
So they did take appropriate action against them [against the Jews]. They . . . shall I say, discriminated
against them wherever they could? They shunned them. The same as we would the Chinese, or the
******, or the Catholics, or anyone in this country who had sold us out to an enemy and brought
about our defeat.
Now, after a while, the Jews of the world didn't know what to do, so they called a meeting in
Amsterdam. Jews from every country in the world attended in July 1933. And they said to Germany:
“You fire Hitler! And you put every Jew back into his former position, whether he was a Communist,
no matter what he was. You can't treat us that way! And we, the Jews of the world, are calling upon
you, and serving this ultimatum upon you.” Well, the Germans told them. . . you can imagine. So
what did they [the Jews] do?
They broke up, and Samuel Untermyer, if the name means anything to people here. . . (You want to
ask a question? --- Uh, there were no Communists in Germany at that time. They were called 'Social
Democrats.)
Well, I don't want to go by what they were called. We're now using English words, and what they
were called in Germany is not very material. . . but they were Communists, because in 1917, the
Communists took over Germany for a few days. Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, and a group
of Jews in Germany took over the government for three days. In fact, when the Kaiser ended the war,
he fled to Holland because he thought the Communists were going to take over Germany as they did
Russia, and that he was going to meet the same fate that the Czar did in Russia. So he left and went to
Holland for safety and for security.
Now, at that time, when the Communist threat in Germany was quashed, it was quiet, the Jews were
working, still trying to get back into their former -- their status -- and the Germans fought them in
every way they could, without hurting a hair on anyone's head. The same as one group, the
Prohibitionists, fought the people who were interested in liquor, and they didn't fight one another with
pistols, they did it every way they could. [continued]