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Friday. October 20 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

out of any materials at hand? We be-
lieve that they sometimes manufacture
the myths out of the whole cloth without
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
by Al Segal
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. any knowledge of the economic, psycho-
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
logic and political facts.
Editor
JACOB MARGOLIS
The myth of the Nazis not fighting on
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CHARLES TAUB
the "sacred soil" of Germany was in
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and yet our myth makers, for reasons best
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ep on assuring us th a t
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ea.a was as
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. once the war reached the frontiers of the I WAS sure Hitler was dead. (if his death
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
I I had disposed of him to my ing to humanity as w, ''
'-- the
Third Reich that it would all be over.
• con-
own satisfaction. The explais- news that cruner had
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
Then,
too,
the
myth
was
in
direct
con-
.,
that
for
One
of
them
.
should
be
simple
pered.
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
,hof tothi.s
timely
,t ure ..,; ,
the
flict with the fait that when the danger enough
in
of y mo one
yn
h
'A' o . n p i ‘ ) %e .... NI V IIS 1 V t l o nr ' II. : great step
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- of invasion became real, the Gestapo was the potency
' v' i ,r11
in the big chair the march of }minu e t ' s ) I;.
office at Detroit. Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
given even greater power and authority It an my happened
The ministers
.. i ' , ir say
. had
living-room where, relax-
ihan it had ever had.
w thnatter. Th,..., quoted
Sabbath Readings of The Law
drew
y 1 p; oh
big a Ilfr asfht us t onflys nesyook,e
i f ig 1, n I m(r
I S 1 c h e r i k i l itt u r t (.. h e
The myth maker forgot, conveniently of
. )f the
Pentateuchal Poition—Gen. '6:9-11 :32.
tram
Jr purposely, that Adolf Hitler and Com- and pretty soon things begin to miserable fate 4 tIti(a't lehl'::: i ik . the
Prophetical Portion—Is. 66.
nce
with
my
evil-doer
had
been
nobly
.
its accordance
pony had as little regard for their racial occur
eated.
ohful thinking.
CHESHVAN 3, 5705
OCTOBER 20, 1C44
brothers as they had for the lesser breeds ‘ri.s
e I eb ra t i o il ''' ' Id
iil l teiri Le , d swords la u Tghhetrocr. b wais.
t took liti a all
night
when their power was threatened. The ia the world Ia nd
'al"nas.
Gestapo would just as soon shoot an not into plow-shares, as Scripture I myself considereditn '' .u.,,.
Jewish-Negro Relationships
()ce--
but, more modernly, sion for a cocktail or
Jew, if it meant prescribes,
Aryan as a Pole or a Jew
into electric refrigerators and even three for that niat'te(t).. or
The study of Jewish-Negro relation- the saving of the Nazi regime.
‘Nu ei d ri i n k i n g an old.
r ei ere d t icurls or s If o rb reuvueg t- sat ts h iaotu ei(si table
priced
re adsyo n a bAlyi; 0 th
ships, sponsored by the Detroit Jewish
which
has been
The only thing that seems to matter in
Community Council, The National Asso- the mad world of the Nazis is the con- together all Jewry in unity • . this my favorite b i :‘, I •eritIg vl i i,Y'
ciation for the Advancement of Colored tinuation of the regime. TO make sure was the masterpiece of all things I was at the point of ordering
up another when I Was Startled
People, and Wayne University, and car- that the regime did not perish because I 1 have achieved in the evenings
t hl a . f riN ti t: i Ili,losri c eN,.' o i l e e :it, eh:n next i
chair . in by
No, I . thought, this could-
e
ri d on by Mrs. Eleanor Paperno, Alvin
ri o n h e ' i h t li s g
the people would not longer light and L i living
msit room
had seen
ut. IntlyseepnTeeci na't e b .e
o shut.
D. Loving, Graduate Fellows, and Donald work for it, Heinrich Himmler organized and my 6g yes half
hanging there. He certainly was
fantastic.
C. Marsh, Assistant Professor in Sociology all the sai is and thugs in Germany into q uite
This time I took up the matter dead. I had seen him buried in
at Wayne University, has been released. the Gestapo, whose business it has been :i fI
o Something had to be the hidden grave. Besides, all
on e littler.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Detroit to see to it t at the soldiers fought and
extirpate him from the the editorial writers had eels
earth. His evil must be torn out brated his death in fervid
Jewish Chronicle will be found a summary the workers toiled.
and destroyed like some noxious umns. The ministers nail said co!.
of the findings.
The regime did not collapse as was
I wahsn't • sure aht first evil had been destroyed.
The investigators found that the rela- predicted by the myth makers, when de- %ieliee(tili.e. r o to have bins .shot or it But this was his voice. I knew
hanging was it could be no illusion, since I
tionships existing between Jews ant Ne- feat followed defeat, and retreat followed ‘ hanged. I decided hang
the better, since shooting is the had had only One old-fashioned.
groes in the Hastings St., Oakland Ave. retrelt
of Yes, this was Hitler's voice at
tare tr.ce , r os thnoaunl d t i c bwe' a hoof ti yolunci fl and
and West Warren Ave. districts were not
Despite the defection of the Satellites,
the next table. H was speakim,
speaking
responsible for the June, 1943 riots. The the loss of almost all the conquered coun- romance in the passing of an in- of Jews with all the old words
malice. I had heard the same
investigators state that it was a conflict tries, the regime still goes on, because the dividual whom it is desirable for and
the sake of social sanitation to words and this malice out of his
between two racial groups—white and Nazis want to rule for a thousandyears. be rid of him.
mouth long ago. They had the
.
Negro—and it might have broken out , [ hey have tasted the heady wine of arbi- There is something
ing even in same ugly sound of hate; it was
in any densely populated area.
trary power and they will sacrifice every the least bit of romance that the same voice of hate. And his
Two paragraphs of the findings are German soldier and worker before they may keep an undesirable person very words. f f f
living even after he is buried.
particularly significant. They are Para- put down the cup.
Napoleon, surrounded by the to- THERE were four men at the
graph XV, which reads as follows:
HERE One replied. "You're
We may never know how many Ger- mantic aura of his lovely en-
XV. .Over 90 per cent of the Jews man soldiers and workers were ready to tombment its PariS, has managed damn right, and something's got
going in the esteem of to be done about the Jews" , • .
had pleasant experiences with Ne- give up the struggle when the battle lines to keep for
t oh urisetso to histhan .1e001sTors.t; Another said : "Ain't that the
groes as domestics, over 70 per cent reached the "sacred soil" of the Father-
truth I said to my wife, we got
as customers, and 59 per cent as land, but we now know that the myth shrine.
sht;y come No! Hitler shall be to do something about the Jews''
neighbors. Rumors about conflicts in of no fighting on German soil has been hanged, I said, and, besides, he . . . The third man said: "You
these relationships seem to be highly exploded by the S.S. Elite guards and the himself considers hanging the said it! I said to my wife you
more unhappy way of dying. He got to hand it to Hitler for the
exaggerated.
Gestapo.
himself chose hanging for those way he did to the Jews."
as
fol-
and paragraph XX, which reads
Yes, this was Hitler, alive and
It is safer to believe that the fighting unfriendly generals ...of his.
He wasn't dead,
I shall not go into the details multiplied.
lows:
will end on the "sacred soil" of the Third
XX. The amount of merchant-cus- Reich when the last soldier is killed or of the hanging. Sufficient to say though I had seen him hanged
I saw bins hanging amid the and buried. I had just heard his
tomer conflict is more related to the surrenders; the last worker drops at his that
clouds that issued from my pipe. voice and its echo.
The waiter asked did I want
Yes, Hitler was dead and I saw
general economic and social charac- work and the Gestapo is destroyed.
anything more. No, nothing snore.
him dead.
ter of the area than to the factor of
I saw him buried. I saw him I paid my check and hurried
racial ownership. The lower the eco-
buried in a hidden grave far from away. I must correct the error
Saving
Polish
Jews
nomic and social conditions in a given
walks of men. That's rs grand of Hitler's death. I called the
Dr. oseph
D
J
Tennenbaum, president of the
idea, I thought. No one ever newspapers: "Stop the presses!
area, the greater the amount of con-
American Federation of Polish Jews,
know where he's buried and It's all a mistake! Hitler isn't
flict engendered. In Detroit, this is
will
speak in Detroit Sunday, Oct. 22, will
his resting place never can be- dead."
illustrated by the presence of the
An editor said: "You told us
come a shrine for the veneration
g reatest amount of Negro-Jewish con- at Jericho Temple. He came here to tell of deluded men. Hanged and oh- you saw Inns hanged!"
the
oft-told
and
melancholy
tale
of
Polish
flict in the Hastings area, which is
"Yes, I saw him hanged."
scurely buried! That finishes him
"And you sat' him buried."
the poorest of the three areas Jewry, but he will also tell local Jewry forever!
iel (,mbitaiththeinistnh'et
stilwhohaitrnd bhuilm
what they can do to help relieve the dis-
f f f
studied.
/ MADE the news known through dead.
tress,
and
help
rescue
the
survivors
of
The lower the social and economic con-
living voice
the daily press of which I am a voices of men;
ditions in a given area. the greater the greatest organized mass movement of member . . . "Hitler is dead," I out of the heart hsis of men."
torture and extermination in the history wrote. "Ile was hanged today." The managing editor changed
amount of conflict engendered.
their headlines: "Hitler Found
The editorial writers applied
In our opinion, any studies made any- of world Jewry.
Alive '" The editorial writers
The
cumulative
effect
of
the
stories
of
where, would confirm this finding. Despite
their typewriters to wild exulta-
See SEGAL—Page 13
this knowledge, we shall, no doubt, con- brutality and terror may have left some tions. They wrote that the Ile W
of us so stunned and dulled that we can-
to
hope
that
somehow
these
con-
tinue
flicts will disappear without much being not react as we did when we heard the
Congratulates Succah Winners
done to.raise the economic and social con- first accounts of the horrors. It is not
well to continue to dwell on these mis-
ditions.
We can go on, blithely hoping that the arias. It is better to picture a better and
lid will not blow off and that these people happier time. This we can do without
whose degraded economic and social con- being Pollyannaish, for now that large
dition engenders resentment, distrust and areas of Poland have been liberated we
hatred, will not break out into open con- can think in terms of a more decent and
reasonable world.
flict with their neighbors.
The immediate task for American
The acid test of European culture and
civilization has been the social and eco- Jewry is the saving of as many as pos-
nomic treatment of the Jews, but in the sible of these Nazi victims, who are des-
United States the test is the economic and p erately facing hunger, if not actual star-
vation. The American Federation of
social treatment of the Negroes.
Our record is not one to which we can Polish Jews, nationally as well as
point with pride, but we can make prog- locally, will send a package of food and
ress in this area, as we have made it in vitamins to a Jew in Poland at a cost
the area of political freedom and equality of $4.00. Elsewhere in this issue of The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle there is an ad-
for the Negro.
vertisement in which the articles in the
package are enumerated.
Another Myth Exploded
This package will not keep one alive
Myths die hard, and it took an Aachen for a long time, but it. will tide over those
to kill the myth that the Germans would who will not, or cannot, be reached at
not fight on the "sacred soil" of the Fath- once by the feeding and rehabilitation
ael AeliQ
Rabbi Leon Fram congratulates pupils of Temple
agencies that are functioning in Europe
erland.
,
ious School on the success of the miniature Succah col ' ..et.
We wonder who are the myth makers. today.
children from left to right are : Etta Gail Benyas, Ju.ii , h
Yes, we know that you are contributing Green and Annette Shepherd, who stands by her Succai, Amone
Are they men and women who have first-
the winners in the contest were : Jerry Weinstein, Marlene Berl °
hand knowledge, or are they men and
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Carol Rosenman, Phyllis Cogan, Philip Vein and Beverly Davis.
women who are supposed to build morale

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