Liberal Forum

Now, that . . . naturally, the Germans said, "Why, who are these people to declare a boycott against us
and throw all our people out of work, and our industries come to a standstill? Who are they to do that
to us?" They naturally resented it. Certainly they painted swastikas on stores owned by Jews.
Why should a German go in and give their money to a storekeeper who was part of a boycott who was
going to starve Germany into surrender into the Jews of the world, who were going to dictate who their
premier or chancellor was to be? Well, it was ridiculous.
That continued for some time, and it wasn't until 1938, when a young Jew from Poland walked into the
German embassy in Paris and shot one of the officials [a German official] that the Germans really
started to get rough with the Jews in Germany. And you found them then breaking windows and
having street fights and so forth.
Now, for anyone to say that -- I don't like to use the word 'anti-Semitism' because it's meaningless, but
it means something to you still, so I'll have to use it -- the only reason that there was any feeling in
Germany against Jews was that they were responsible: number one, for World War One; number two,
for this world-wide boycott, and number three -- did I say for World War One, they were responsible?
For the boycott -- and also for World War II, because after this thing got out of hand, it was absolutely
necessary for the Jews and Germany to lock horns in a war to see which one was going to survive. [continued]