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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

•ublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE

JACOB MARGOLIS

CHARLES TAUB

ji

Pres.-Gen. Mgr.

Editor

Advertising Mgr.

were promised $200.00 a month cast the
majority of ,the votes.
.
The Gerald L. K. Smiths are a nuisance,
and may even become a danger, but as
long as they do not get political control
they will remain only a nuisance.

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Friday, October

Plain Talk...

6, 1944

by Al Sega

How Many Germans are Nazis?

Crime and Punishment
American and British troops found
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. thousands of Germans in the towns and
villages taken by theM. These Germans
r i
Telephone: CAdillac 1040
Cable Address: Chronicle
v t
Subscription in Advance
HILLEL, the business coast of South Anse
$3.00 Per Year did not obey the order to flee . and scorch X I R.
, goCar- o.
the earth. The Gestapo could not threaten 131 . Man, who occasionally asks aces in Venzuela there c ,t;rands
on
to
take
over
this
column,
says,
a
high
pedestttl
a
or compel, so they stayed put. The young
wrecked slut
...To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter men and the Nazi functionaries got out "Mr. Segal, it's several months It was placed there Ion ,
to
since I last wrote your column warn all people who drive
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
that
as fast as they could. These few facts for you, and what do you think w a y of , m . f shit(s::(ittlyess
tibsytt. ifnis:uvinhae -
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
of my writing a piece for you fall those who drive to fast, or
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- can be interpreted in many ways and we
c a relessly, or
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- choose to interpret them according to our this week?"
I said, all right, Mr. Ilillel, life. Similarly, I would make the
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. special predilections or, if one prefers,
since I wasn't its much of a stood wreck of Germany a solemn
according to our special bias and preju- of writing anyway. The season oriel of the consequence s mem-
of
i s verging into Indian summer cruelty, ra q p
dice.
sii :itti
acity
y as d I I s' ).
Entered as Second-class matter' March 3, 1916, at the Post-
much
more
and
it's
pleasant
to
In
writing
this
I
The Nazis fled but the German people
separate mv-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
a walk with Ellen who is gseilvfatalnt:
I speak
as 0
altogether
fotf.onhitlltilavn
b shs
Jt:ivnig
remained. Whether one likes it or not, take
my granddaughter than to write identity.
of th e
the
fact
remains
that
the
behavior
of
the
a column.
Sabbath Chol Hamoed Succoth Readings
Nazis and the people was different. From Mr. Hillel (which is not his who in the recent weeks have
of the 1",4an
this we conclude that the people were not real name) said the craving to been horrified by first-hand, auth-
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 33:12-31:26; Num. 29:
a column came over hint entic accounts and photographic
all Nazis. Certainly they obeyed the Ges- w•ite
because he had a bone to pick evidence of su: ' uman savagery
17-25.
tapo as long as the Gestapo was present with me.— That fact made Mr. among the Germans.
Prophetical portion—Ezek, 38:18-39:16.
to enforce its orders. Certainly they did Hillel twice welcome, for there
I mean the reports of Amer-
nothing I like so much as to icon correspondents who hav e
not protest and they did not revolt. In is
Shemini Azereth Readings of the Torah,
have a critic pick. particularly, authenticated
•
seen butche r
this they were much the same as are my own bones.
Monday, Oct. 9
lethal
ies gas
folk
everywhere.
Mr. Hillel thereupon took from chambers and the crematories,
Pentateuchal portions—Deut. 14:22-1-17; Num.
his
pocket
the
manuscript
of
his
have
looked
at
the
human
bones
The
vast
majority
of
us
obey
consti-
29:35-30-1.
column . . . "Here it is," he tuhtiicrhhatshtee fleeing
tuted authority, and few of us ever pro- said
Prophetical portion—I Kings 8:54-66.
. . . It read as follows:
failed t o iraeuni;(11,t:I.1t.TTs h eiya
test or revolt against overwhelming force. I suffered considerable pain have seen, 800,000
pairs of shoes
Simchas Torah Readings of the Law,
Our obedience and our failure to protest recently in residing a column by which the killers were careful
Tuesday, Oct. 10
does not necessarily mean that we are in Mr. Segal on what to do with to take from the feet of their
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 33 :1-34 :12; Gen. agreement with, or approve of, what is Germany after the war. Mr. victims for use by German feet.
Segal seemed to be a softy. In Their photographic evidence sup-
1:12-3; Num. 29:45-30:1.
being done. The attitude of most people effect,
he said that after we have ports all this.
Prophetical portion--Joshua 1.
is, "You can't fight City Hall." We be- given Germany her spanking he Before this I myself found it
lieve the German people, under Hitler would tell her to go and sin no hard to believe reports of mass-
Ile wouldn't break up Ger- murder by Germans. I couldn't
rule, were not much different from the more.
OCTOBER 6. 1944
believe it because to believe it
TISHRI 19, 5705 German people under the Weimar repub- many into pieces.
That isn't the way I raise my was disrespectful of the human
lic, or the people of Britain or America. children. If that was the soft race. I had been brought up to
This is the first opportunity we have way in which Mr. Segal brought think • well of the human race
Danger or Nuisance?
up his own children I am sur- which, despite some backsliding,
had to appraise the German people
since
This
is prised that they turned out to had gone pretty far on the way
Rev. Dr. Everett Clinchy, president of Hitler came to power in 1933.
be •the decentpeople they are. to civilization.
the
first
opportunity
•Ne
have
had
to
learn
In my house wrong-doing always DDT this slaughter-house was
the National Conference of Christians andh
w at they w
do when the Gestapo has been followed by severe pen- L an insult to the self-respect of
'Jews, has asked 300 mayors of large was not around. They did nott the stales. The guilty are not al- the whole human family. These
lowed to forget their sinning; million dead were beyond pain
American cities to ban the injection of American and British soldiers as Tiber- the
punishment they suffer ad- but the evidence of this multiple
racial and religious issues in the present ators. Many explanations can be given monishes them sternly against crime remains a degrading affront
political campaign. Many of the mayors for this behavior, but we shall not offer similar wrong-doing in the fu- to all the race whose self-respect
that policy I have requires thqt the guilty nation
will go on record in favor of the proposal any at this time. We shall confine our- Lure. On
a God-fearing- law-abiding shall forever lie wrecked as an
and those
eir be avior, family.
un
those who do not answer may be selves to th
admonition that the like of this
The. human race and, particu- crime never must •
counted upon to ban religious and racial their refusal to flee and their refusal to
aga in.
Italy, the German section of it, This is a moral ina
scorch the earth.
b c,111.1Ttliva e.
issues.
to be hit hard in order
Mr. Segal has reminded us
We do not expect those who are com- to needs
All of this is to the good, and will no
learn moral lessons.
that in his youth he knew some
doubt help to decrease anti-Semitic, anti- mated to the policy of the extermination
/ 1 1
kill(' German teachers. Doubt- •
b all Germans to change their attitude, I FEAR Mr. Segal, as a mem- less, s, there
Negro, anti-foreign activity. But will it of
some good Gcr-
her
of
the
people
that
has
g
Ber ts
c he remembers
ir
stop that perversive, insidious propaganda ut whether they do or not, they are suffered most at the hands of mans, even
n;
that is being spread all all over the land faced by a stubborn fact. A section of the Germans, thought it , would these million ctais
murders
and which is causing much anxiety and the German people did not obey Hitler be a noble gesture in him, the private crimes; they t N 'ql r11 .(:i.ri elti onune -t
and the Gestapo.
Jew, to regard the Germans suer- al polic3r vecrxeciuted
distress among our people?
'
by i auth o rities d
There are unscrupulous. greedy, malic- cifully. He disregards the facts whose every hate
There is an undefined and wides read
There
German life a whole genera- act the nation heile,d.
eilli11
1, (1. v".
feeling among many reasonable and tour- iG ous , ambitious, sychophantic and sadistic li on i onfuy
erc which
, hic is o huals been
w
taught
It is unfortunate that the good
ageous people that the forces of hate, ermans, but there are also scrupulous, that a
only weakness to Germans can't be separated from
bigotry and discrimination are organizing decent, honest, kindly and upstanding be spat and trampled upon. I the evil-doers. But as participat-
kee the wrek. of mg members of the nation they
Germans. We have protested and do still would forever keep
their cohorts for an attack upon us.
- I Germany as a horrible example must go down in the awful wreck
protest
against
the
indictment
of
whol(,
Nothing that has been done or said has
of what happens to nations that with the criminals. Certainly. the
succeeded in dissipating these fears,' nation—even the German nation.
break thethleaws winding
of God mountain
and man. murder of a million or more could
We believe that when the final count
doubts and suspicions. This is not a
not have been done by the hands
healthy state of affairs and, if long con- is taken it shall be discovered that per- road that leads from the north
See SEGAL—Page 9
haps a majority of the mature German
timed, may do serious damage.
-p
eople
were
only
passively
obedient
at
We believe that the fears are exagger-
LET'S TALK IT OVER
ated and we base this belief upon the first, and later on became apathetic and
record of failures of all anti-movements hopeless, and could not respond even
By Z. TYGEL
to
tion.
in this country up till now.
QUESTIONS
The record up till now may not be a
One standing, as it were, on date? This, while we are well
The War Criminals
guarantee that it will continue so, yet we
the rim of the present maelstrom aware
of the fact that when our
cannot very well go beyond the record.
ACCOrding to advices from London, the of life, watching it from his lofty armies. marched into Italy the
The most successful anti-movement in
vantage point, „is many a ues- Jews there were liberated at (owe.
this country since the Civil War was the Allied War Crimes Commission list does
the Jewish
(i.
Why have we not heard of tiny ,
thrn e t( ) ianstkerregarding
interwove n with the daily important Jewish organization. as,
Ku Klux Klan movement that emerged not include the names of Hitler, Goering, i threads
news, questions to which he for instance,
after World War I. This racketeering Himmler and Goebbels. The list at prey- war
knows no answer, yet questions ish Conferenc
' :;ic e, ile„tr i.'!
ic':. , ;:le;g-
movement succeeded in enrolling a large ent contains but 350 names. This rotor- th t at filllre th e with apprehension. to rumors,
has begun to show
mation will no doubt disturb and discom- These
i
membership and even succeeded in elect-
signs of life, getting in touch
had not
ot s
some
onst. cyntral re- with the Soviet government re-
ing men to office. The national conven- fit many, but we see no reason for being lief Why
Organization. provided side- garding relief work in the i
1 "1"
tions of the Republican and Democratic disturbed by the revelation of the London quate funds to help
the refugees ated terrtiories in Poland ' l .n
i IT-
newspapers
that
carried
the
story.
,iinrriFvoe rdt Ontario as soon as they gard to its political
parties had to wrestle with the problem.
aspects? At
Despite .the story we are still of the
this
For a while the hate and fear mongers
o a time when information 1 as :al-
ez
opinion
opinion
that
the
Axis
war
criminals
will
done, a number O lf ad organizations
orgt• t I n' b
reached
hfct.)(r1
,, that s pectitael
found large segments of the American
would have been spared the trou-
lY l
this
a ttt : c i t y
ipurpose
I
people responsive to their propaganda. be tried. The United Nations' representa-
scul
rl
scurrying
around in sin already functioning:
fives
have,
on
more
than
one
occasion,
ib.ff
leortoft cfoorectthecloottlizs and other of Lublin consisting of reputable
With the subsidance of the hates and
ee aen
fears engendered by the war, the move- stated that the Axis war criminals will be articles for
from Poland.
tried. They did not name them specific- it would have made citomuenrns s- d Jewish personages
w not t hour w (Nile. tilt.). irtitiotuts i
ment collapsed. -
sary
for
some
of
them
to
come
armies
y followed
Why
The other anti-movement that made ally, but there can be little doubt as to w uhtiehwihth sporadic explanations social
workers, men and W011101
the identity of some of the war criminals.
ci;.
headway was the Coughlin movement. This
in Ear
assumption is predicated upon the ers in doavu t as to ltehftt. the read- familiar with Jewish life material
The hollowness of the whole movement
.eraheity, one, in order to render
to the fact thatirthle have and spiritual aid to indivduals
was revealed in the presidential elfction fact that Secretary of State Hull, and rep- owing
not infrequently contradict yed one and to the thousands of Jews
of 1940. At the convention of the Cough- resentatives of other United Nations court- another.
who keep flocking from their hide-
. o one intervene re- outs to the liberated 'cities and
linites, Townsendites, Lemkeites, and all tries, first requested the neutrals not to
give
asylum
to
the
Axis
war
criminals,
garding
a \ r %;1 ibnY did e n incomprehensible
a omprehensible fact towns in the wake of the armed
other anti-elements, Father Coughlin
at. as late
Se pt. 2, 10 days forces of the Allies? We have
promised that he would never again speak and later almost threatened the neutrals after
the liberation of Paris, the not heard of any of our Jewish
if they gave them asylum. -
on the air if his party did not poll 7,000,-
Ghetto was still in existence and organizations making a request
According to reports from Sweden, that
the e Parisian Jews were held for permission
000 votes. The count showed less than a
to do this kind
behind bars, according to a cable
million, and of these the old people who
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in the New York Times of even

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