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Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
"Sure, but who are the authori-
•pes? I went to the American of-
ficer. His sergeant told me to
take my complaint to the mayor.
I went t4, the mayor. His secre-
tary gave me a long report to fill
+. Then he said: 'You under-
But, your first day home,"
she protested weakly. She placed
her hands on both of them.
"Please, no trouble — not right
away. Your first clay." The faces
of the two men remained un-
moved.
cannot throw Herr
I
She dropped her arms resign-
.ndheit into the street. That
edly. "I too, have waited. Waited
would just make for more confu-
while my baby died. Waited while
sion. But I'll see what I can do.
I wondered what was happening
Just be patient.' And then he
to Otto. Waited while we starv-
threw me out politely. So I'm ed. Maybe I've been waiting too
free. But I have no store. I have
long. Maybe I've forgotten what
no home. I'm just a beggar — no freedom means. Maybe, you're
a hice to go. No family—nothing. right, Maybe this is the best way
'w.bavid looked at Otto. "I didn't
to spend your first (lay at home."
want to break in on you and your
She turned to David. "We have
wife. But I have no place to go."
friends who stayed anti-Nazi.
Elsie lifted her head. "Of We'll get them together. We'll
course, you'll stay here."
get your store back for you."
Otto ran his fingers up and
David looked at her. "I, too,
down the table. Then he looked have friends," he said. "Jews,
at Elsie. Is nothing being done? like myself, who have come back;
Aren't the Americans returning I met two or three of them on
stolen property? What are they the streets. Suppose I get them,
doing?"
too?" He laughed. "It will be a
"It takes time, I guess," Elsie good way to celebrate the New
said. "After all, they have so Year?"
* * *
faany things they must do. I sup-
pose we have to wait."
Major McNamara was reading
"Wait," David broke in. "For
years I waited. Do I have to keep
on waiting? Soon, I will be old.
I'm twenty years older now than
when I was sent away. Do we
Jews always have to wait?"
"And how much longer do we
have to wait?" added Otto.
"Those of us who didn't want the
Nazis. Who tried to stop them.
h Do we still have to have them?"
4 "We have peace now," said El-
sie.
"And how long will peace last
with them around? Tell me who
is mayor."
"Rossheim."
Otto's hand struck the table.
"That bastard." He looked at El-
sie. "Are any of us left?" he
asked.
She shook her head. "A few.
We haven't been able to do much.
Most are gone, killed, imprisoned
or sent to the army. But a few
of us women, and older 1,ien are
left."
Otto looked grimlf at David.
"We'll get your store back for
you. I didn't spend six years in
Dachau to have a bastard like
Rossheim tell us -what we can and
we cant do." He turned to Elsie.
"See how many you can round
up. Let's get together all our
friends who are left."
HUDSONVILLE, MICH.
through a long complicated order
for the third time, when Sgt.
Bartelli entered and told him that
a number of people were in his
outer office. The major scowled.
"What (10 they want? Maybe they
don't like the way we're doing
the things. Or, maybe they want
better rations, cleaner toilets.
Tell the bastards I can't see them
Do they think we're the WPA?
And if any other of those
krauts come in, boot them the
hell out."
Bartelli waited for the major
to pause for breath, and then he
interrupted. "They seem to be
well organized, sir. They insist
on speaking to you. They even
have elected a committee of six.
Those are the guys outside."
McNamara scowled. "Insist.
Who the hell do they think won
the war?" He paused. "Oh, - -
show them in. ,They might as well
find out right now who's boss."
But he looked with surprise at
the odd group that entered. Two
wore the striped prison suits of
former concentration camp in-
mates, and two of them were ob-
viously Jewish.
Otto spoke. "We hope we won't
take up too much of your time,
major, but this is important. We
have a list of people whose busi-
ness and homes or both were
taken over by Nazis. They ex-
pected to have their property re-
turned. But nothing has been
done. Most of these people have
returned f r o m concentration
camps. Most of them are Jewish.
None of them have a home or
any way of earning a living.
Now," he looked at the others
who were nodding in agreement,
"now, we think it is time they
got their property back."
McNamara looked puzzled. "I
know how you feel," he said.
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The major looked sharply at
him. "How do I know that you're
telling the truth?"
Otto laughed. "Look at us.
Jews and Gentiles. Two of us just
out of concentration camps. Out-
side there are twenty others —
also mixed."
McNamara scratched his chin.
"Well," he said, "I guess at least
you two aren't Nazis," he grinned
at David and the other Jew. "If
there won't be any hell to pay,
I'll certainly be willing to kick
out the Nazis, But what do the
people of the town think about
it?"
"A lot of the people won't like
it," Otto said. "You don't get rid
of Nazism in a day. But they'll
have to learn that Hitler isn't
runing the Reich any more."
"But what about the Nazis we
throw out?" the major interrupt-
ed. "We can't just have them
tion camps," shouted David.
"There's plenty of room there
now."
The major shrugged. "We don't
have concentration camps. But,"
he added with a sudden smile,
"we have a nice sized jail here.
That's one thing the Nazis did.
They built plenty of good big
jails. flow many would we have
to kick out?"
After some discussion among
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"But the mayor assures me that
this is not a good time to restore
this property, Those families who
have it would, in turn, have no
place to go. It would upset the
town just as we are beginning
to get things straightened out."
"How can things be straight-
ened out when those who suffer-
ed most are still suffering?" ask-
roaming the streets."
ed a woman in the delegation.
"Let them go to the concentra-
"Let the Nazis suffer," said
David.
"But," said the major, "your
own mayor suggested that we
wait."
"Rossheim is a Nazi," another
man said. "What do you expect
him to say?"
McNamara looked
startled.
"Rossheim is no Nazi. We looked
into his record very carefully.
He never even went to their
meetings."
"There are many Nazis who
never became prominent," said
Otto. "They remained in the
background to be used for other
work. Maybe for work like to-
day."
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was given a figure. "My God,"
he said, "so many people. They
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