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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
August 4
1944
kill Hitler and overthrow the regime until
they were apprised by Goebbels, in that
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
remarkable speech, in which he pictured
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc the miraculous escape of the Fuehrer,
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
by Al Sesal
and at the same time told the German
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
people
that
they
would
have
to
make
CHARLES TAUB
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more sacrifices and endure more.
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''•••■•J
HAV E heard that there has a man of religious understanding.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- better for them than continuation of Nazi
jects of interest to the Jewish peoPle, but disclaims respon- rule. We think that the failure of the
been considerable talk for and While remaining faithful
your
Jake around the country. own beliefs you can
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
Soviet Union, United States and Britain against
In one of the Jewish press a ship in the church find fellow-
of ailothir
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- to agree upon peace aims and terms is letter denounced me as a slick faith. You seem to he a man
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. not helping to speed the end of the war, conversationist who in my sly who doesn't think of God as his
and we think that the failure to impress way may be leading Jews into own special Father r a (ntd
Sabbath Scriptural Readings
Catholicism. All on account of doesn't regard people
the German people with the idea that it my story about Jake and Father irienl(iriothris
other
Pentateuchal Portion—Deut. 4:23-7:11.
would be to their advantage to sabotage
therefore,
els
f t orts .,tutPochbi ( 1 : 11s.e h ri un,.d.
Prophetical Portion—Is. 40:1-26.
f "
(Jake, 'nu may remember, "You are a civilized man.
and not to co-operate with the Nazis has
was
the
gentleman
in
the
small
"Neither
do
I
think
of
my
r
AUGUST 4, 1944
AB. 15.5704 not been helpful in shortening the con- town who went to say Kaddish ligion as a high, impenetrable e.
flict.
for his wife in Father Pat's wall that separates me from other
Catholic church every morning, people who do not bend their
We
are
persuaded
that
the
formula
of
Turkey Finally Acts
since in his town there were no knees and bow their heal Jeru-
unconditional surrender will not be synagogue and no minyan, both salemward in the synagogu
e . If
Turkish action in severing diplomatic changed, but yet we see no good reason of which are essential to the it
sort of o if t.
j o un da I
and economic relations with the Third why the German people cannot be told proper saying of kaddish.)
w ould have none
In my mail have come letters ism has many windows and doors.
Reich is tantamount to telling the Nazis over and over again that they will be
for and against Jake. Some of "Through the windows I look
that they have lost the war.
accepted in the family of nations if their them call Jake an ignorant Jew at my neighbors and appreciate
The Turks have been very cautious up conduct merits such consideration, and and tell me that I should be and admire the way they've fixed
of myself for exploiting up their house as a habitation
till now and now that they have made why they cannot be promised better con- ashamed
publicly a fellow like him. Others for God. I can hear them speak-
this move it means that after most care- ditions than they now endure.
say Jake's all right and wish ing to God and from what they
were more enlightened peo- say to Him I know he's my God,
ful consideration of all the dangers they
The German people cannot be expected there
have decided that the Nazi gang can do to revolt, but they can be expected to ple, Jews and Gentiles, like him too. Their voices are familiar.
world. They have the sound of my voice
them little harm. The Truks, living as sabotage and to be non-co-operative if in Of the
course, I was only a report- when in my troubles I speak to
they do at one of the world's busiest proper inducements are made them.
er telling a story about Jake and Him and ask for some light by
wasn't backing him up as he sat which to find the way out.
cross-roads, know pretty well what is go-
For whatever it is worth, we have al- in the Catholic church, in the "Through the wide-open doors
ing on in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,
lowed
Goebbels and his gang of propo- hour of mass, saying Kaddish of my religion I approach the
as well as in Greece,•Yugoslavia, Czecho-
for his wife and feeling perfectly house of my neighbor's religion
gandists
and disturbers to fill the German at
home. I tried to be objective and feel at home there. I get
slovakia and the Reich itself, and if they
masses
with
dread
of
an
Allied
victory.
in the way of a good reporter, idea that his religious house and
decided that they no longer cared for
but now that angry people are mine are practically one house,
Nazi good-will and business they must be
jumping on Jake I feel I must built by the common experience
convinced that the Hitler gang is defi-
go to his side in the pew in the of faith. I hope he will come
Hope for Hungarian Jewry
Catholic church saying Kaddish visiting to my house some day.
nitely on the way out.
Plain Talk...
I
The situation in Hungary seems to have
changed for the better. The Hungarian
authorities are now hotly denying that
they ever made any offer to spare 400,-
000 Jews in exchange for non-military
supplies from the Allied Nations. Wheth-
er such an offer were ever made is of
little or no consequence when compared
with the fact that they now feel corn-
pelled to deny that any such proposition
was ever made.
We believe that the Hungarians are
There may, however, be a change of
heart and attitude on the part of the not at all displeased because they can
satellites when they realize that strong now prove to the world that they are not
United Nations' forces are near at har.,1 like the sadistic Nazi brutes who tried
and ready to come to their aid if they to force them to carry out the Nazi terror
should decide upon any such heroic ac- program.
tion as -a break with the Nazis.
Then, too, we believe that the leaders
The action of Turkey is more than a of Hungary are more than half persuaded
straw in the wind ; it is a portent, a black that the Nazis will be defeated, and con-
portent for the Nazis and a bright and sequently it will be to their advantage to
hopeful one for all the peoples of Europe curry favor with the United Nations gov-
and especially for the special victims of ernments.
Hitler---our brothers.
I Besides the aforementioned reasons,
there is a physical reason, that makes
it increasingly difficult to deport Jews to
The German Officers Revolt
Poland. The onrushing Soviet armies have
According to "honest" Joe Goebbels already taken Lublin, and from present
there was an attempt on the life of Adolf indications should clear the Nazis from
Hitler by an officers' clique. As a result all of Poland within a short time. Thus
of the alleged attempt to kill the Fuehrer there is a fair prospect that Hungarian
a triumverate has been created, which is Jews will not be subjected to the cruel
charged with complete control of the life deportations that had been marked out
of the Third Reich and the occupied coun- as their fate, when the Nazis overran
tries. Himmler, Goering and Goebbels Hungary.
were named. So much for the alleged
The apparent amenability of the Hun-
plot and its resultant tightening of the garian authorities proves that they were
Nazi grip upon unhappy Europe.
not completely corrupted by Nazi ideol-
Nobody claims that any part of the ogy. If they had been they would have
civilian population took part in the al- pursued the same policy as Hitler, Him-
leged revolt. This is not at all surprising. mler, Goebbels and Company, and would
In fact, it would have been surprising if have listened to no appeals for mercy or
any civilians had the temerity, or should threats of reprisals. The Hungarian rul-
we say foolhardiness, to attempt to take ers expect to live after their defeat, the
the life of Adolf Hitler with the grip German Nazis obviously do not. The
that Himmler's Gestapo has on all Ger- Hungarians also hope for some sort of
man civilian life.
a modus vivenda with the United Nations
It is our considered opinion that there when the war ends; the German Nazis
will be no civilian revolt or uprising in know that unconditional surrender and
the Third Reich as long as the Army defeat mean the end for them.
remains loyal to Hitler. And then the
We do not think we are too hopeful
disloyal Army would have to be thor- when we look forward to some sort of a
oughly organized and the revolt wide- solution of the problems facing Hungarian
spread before it could be effective.
Jewry, but in the case of the Jews under
The failure of the civilian population Nazi rule we can expect nothing but
to stage a revolt is grist for those who terror and brutality till the very end.
want to lump the people with the Nazi This is true not only as far as the Jews
leaders. "See," they say, "what did the are concerned, but is equally true for
German people do when the officers tried those Germans who dare to oppose the
to overthrow the Hitler regime Nothing." Nazis, and certainly for the peoples of
In fact we seriously doubt that the peo- the occupied and satellite countries that
ple even knew there was an attempt to show any opposition to Nazi domination.
This decision will no doubt have pro-
found repercussions in Germany. Even
Joseph Goebbels and his master propa-
gandists will not be able to explain this
one away. As to its effect upon the
satellite governments, we cannot hope for
much as long as strong Nazi armies oc-
cupy their land. This has been true par-
ticularly in the cases of Hungary and
Romania, and to a lesser extent in the
case of Bulgaria.
for his wife in the morning.
"That reminds me of a very
I lay a sympathetic hand on Jewish gentleman in our town—
his shoulder .. . "Good morning, you'd know his name at once if
Jake. You're a man after my own I mentioned it—who lives closeby
heart and I like you. a Presbyterian church. They are
"You see, Jake, you in this neighbors, you might say, and he
church, saying Kaddish are an does the neighborly thing. He
answer to all intransigent people goes every Sunday to the services
who think their religion is a high of the Presbyterian church and
wall to keep them from being feels himself no stranger there,
contaminated by people with oth- though he is a most devout Jew.
er kinds of religion. You go to "It's his way of expressing the
seek God in the Christian church brotherhood that is implicit in
and remain a good Jew. his concept of Judaism. He
"Yes, these fanatical folks— thinks along the same lines you
Jews and Christians—help to do„Jake. What's needed, Jake.
make a lot of the divisive trouble is a hell of a lot more people—
in this worry world. I know a Jews and Christians—like you
rabbi who will not permit his and him.
shadow to (Irken the door of a
e ,
certain synagogue in which worn-
V OU, like me, sometime=
en are allowed to sit on the same
-I- must wonder what Gol
floor level with their men, with thinks of it all: The ,vay peopi
no curtain at all between them. have divided themselves int
As for being seen in a Reform hateful groups in His honor; the
temple, that would be as embar- way they back-bite each other
missing to' this holy man as it for His favor; the way they have
would be for him to he caught persecuted one another for tin'
in gehenna. glory of the ineffable Name.
f f f
"Yes, Jake, He must be very
tin N THE other side are patient or we would all ha','
‘-.1 those of the Christian been kicked over the edge of the
clergy who would feel they were earth long ago. I guess lie':
letting themselves down into patient because He knows from
abysmal sin if they had to do
with an occasion in the church long experiences that the human
of another Christian denomina- kind finally gets punished by its
own sins and follies, and why
tion.
"I thank you, Jake, for being
See SEGAL—Page 9
BARNEY ROSS JOINS JEWISH WAR VETS
SGT. BARNEY ROSS, FORMER WORLD'S CHAMPION PRIM:•
FIGHTER WHO WAS ONE OF THE HEROES OF GUADALCAN
JOINS JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF .U. S. FOLLOWING HIS PIS.
CHARGE FROM MARINES:—Ross (center), who is credited with
getting twenty4wo Jape while defending three wounded comrades. ig
shown with Murray Press (left), National Recruiting Officer, and Archie
Greenberg (right), National commander of the J. W. V. •