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Friday, August 9, 1946
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DETROIT EWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
MAN CIF THE WIEEIK
The Voice of the
Man in the Street
to be old," said Louis James
REPORT FROM
GERMANY
"It is hard to say when a man gets
Rosenberg on the occasion of his seventieth birthday last week.
The Jewish Chronicle will pay
That depends a lot on his physical condition and his mental outlook.
I stay interested in things I like to do and that is what keeps me $1.00 to the person whose question
By IRVING IIAYETT
young. In addition to that, I am very active. I get up every morning is used in this column. Mail your
Jewish Chronicle Foreign Correspondent
at seven o'clock and do a full day's work. I have things planned questions to the Jewish Chronicle,
(Copyright 1916, All Rights Reserved)
525 Woodward Ave, Detroit 26.
for years ahead. I never allow myself to get morbid."
This series of articles tells of the War Crimes
Photos by ERIC BENNETT
This, in brief, is the secret of Rosenberg's remarkably youth-
youth-
,
Staff Photographer
Trials In Frankfurt, Germany.
to A ful appearance and outlook. His mind is keen and vigorous. His
memory for dates and happenings
afternoon.
of years ago is prodigious., His TIME: Sunday
Dexter Boulevard.
interest in people and current PLACE:
QUESTION: Do you think the
problems is all embracing.
radio programs we hear nowa-
The first Michigan Jew to ap-
days are a good influence on
pear in Why's Who in America,
I continue with the list of the Wurttemberg. He was an SS cap-
children?
which he broke into back in '1912,
accused and their crimes. It is tain. He left Horsbruck, a by-
Rosenberg is one of the founders MAX ELLIS, 3201 Glynn Court.
important in the progress of the camp, with 3,000 men at the time
of the evacuation. The evacuation
of the Michigan Author's Associa-
Yes. and no. It depends largely case to Rave a general picture of order was in effect from the 2nd
tion and founder and president of
on the kind of programs they lis- the nature of the accusations made of January that when troops of
the Detroit Philosophical Society. ten to. There are a great many against those on trial. It is neces-
He lectures before these organi- blood and thunder programs on sary that all these charges appear the enemy came close the out-
camps were to be evacuated and ,
zations frequently.
the air which in my opinion are on the records. Mankind must the inmates were to be brought to
He was born in Riga, the cap-
harmful to chil- never be allowed to forget what the main camp that was the clos-
ital of Latvia. '
dren. On the was done In this last war. Per- est. There was a general order
"The culture there was pre-
other hand, haps if we sicken ourselves with that no prisoner was to be per-
dominantly German at that time,"
there are a the details of the evil that has mitted to fall into the hands of the
he said. "My whole elementary
great many been done, we may be able to enemy alive. Four thousand were
which are very recognize the symptoms of the evacuated from Hersbruck and
education was in German. Many
next one before it is too late to
educational.
Jews there considered themselves
about 1,000 arrived at Dachau.
Children like prevent it.
German and in general, the Teu.
Number 40, Schmitz, comes from Three-fourths of them traveled on
to
listen
to
pro-
tonic element was quite friendly
foot. He gave orders to his guards
grams of adven- Konegslutter. He was the doctor that if a person could not travel
to Jews. There was quite a
at Flossenberg until 23 May, 1945.
k
ture.
Unfortu-
strong element of anti-Semitism
any farther to shoot him down.
nately, a great He was in charge of the prison- Prisoners were so hungry at Hers-
there but it consisted largely of
ers'
hospital
at
Floss.
He
sent
men
many of these
LOUIS JAMES ROSENBERG
bruck that when a train on rail-
the peasant stock of Russians who
a r e stories o f to work with a temperature of 39 road tracks adjacent to Hersbruck
degrees
centigrade
or
102
Fahren-
had a superstitious dread and dislike of Jews.
crime and violeifce. These get chil-
heit. He vetoed the issue of neces- was hit by an American bomb and
"I was obliged under the educational laws to stedy Russian and dren all excited and nervous.
bodies and pieces of bodies of
I
also
started
at
a
very
early
age
I still read the language fluently.
However, children are also lis. sary medicines which were avail- Wehrmacht soldiers fell into the
able.
He
required
prisoners
to
walk
fourteen,
I
came
to
America.
to read a little in English. At the age of
tening constantly to wonderful
camp, a starving prisoner picked
The circumstances were rather peculiar. One day, I had gone to musical programs. They listen to to the dispensary who had ad- up and commenced eating a piece
vanced
pneumonia,
purulent
pleu-
school as usual. When I returned, with my knapsack on my arm, I newscasts and commentators and risy with mild carditis and severe of a human forearm. The death
learned that some friends were going to America. Out of a clear sky, because of this they are much nephritis. Feet, legs, arms and rate at Hersbruck exceeded 20 per
my father asked me if I would like to go along. The next day, I was better informed on topics of the hands were amputated for frost- cent of the population per month.
day than children were twenty
on my way to this country."
bites with or without anesthetics. He told the prisoners on the trans-
He killed by injection of evipan port that they would march until
Once in Detroit, Rosenberg studied the printing trade. Then he years ago.
and other drugs. One day after none of them remained and that
went to Chicago. At the age of sixteen, he started to take extension
JOSEPH TENNER, 9437 Quincy. consulting the death register and any who lagged would be shot.
courses there. In this way, he finished high school and took uni-
Yes, my children listen to the noting that during less than one Approximately 1,500 were shot.
versity courses. He was a frequent visitor at Hull House in Chicago
Number 44, Schubert, comes from
and was strongly impressed by the great personality of the famous radio all the time. It is their year 10,000 prisoners had died at
most important form of entertain- Floss, he said, "that is a beautiful Jannowitz. He was chief of opera-
Jane 'Addams, thdn at the height of her career in social work.
result, isn't it?" He is charged tions of the German Earth and
ment and, inci-
He wrote his first book at the age of twenty. It was a work on
with wantonly and wilfully killing Stone Works in the quarry at
dentally, min e,
Mazzini, the great Italian leader, and was entitled "Prophet of the
by maladministration of the hos- Floss, drawing military pay. He
too.
Religion of Humanity." The book was dedicated to Jane Addams.
pital, mishandling of patients, ex- worked directly under the arma-
On the whole,
perimenting on patients, unneces• ment staff of the aviation minis-
At the age of twenty-one, he returned to Detroit and entered as the level is not
nary operations and amputations try at Berlin which determined
a student in the Detroit College of Law. In 1900, he was admitted to too high but
executions by injection, killing by the amount of work output. The
the bar. A confirmed idealist, Rosenberg was intensely interested in evidently that is
improper treatment, post-operative central office at Berlin prescribed
international law and determined to enter the consular service. He what the ma-
mishandling of inmates and re- the amount of work. The amount
was a master of English, French and German and with his tremen- jority of the
sponsibility for the spread of con- of work prescribed at Berlin was
dous interest in the new Italy that had arisen as a result of the people want or
tagious diseases through misfea- always carried out, at the exPense
efforts of hjs idol, Mazzini, together with Cavour and Garibaldi, he they would not
sance and nonfeasance in office.
of the health and even death of
be listening. Ths
applied for a position Nith the consulate in Rome. Instead, he was
Number 41, Schreiber, comes the inmates, unless there was a
children listen
offered the position of consul to Spain.
from Bavaria. He joined the party shortage of materials. He is a part
to certain pro-
In somewhat of a quandary, he went for advice to Senator Pal- grams as regularly as they go to and the SS in 1932. Together with of the common design to extermi-
mer who assured him that "Seville was a beautiful city." With that school. They do not have to be another SS man he shot five Rus- nate those under his jurisdiction.
recommendattion, Rosenberg went to Spain. Three years later, he forced to listen to them. On the sian officers. He stole prisoners'
Number 46, Skierka, comes from
was sent to Brazil. While there, he became ill and obtained a fur- contrary, you can't prevent them. food and beat them.
Danzig. He was a 2nd Lt. in the
If there was some way of put-
Number 42, Schwanner, comes SS. He had command of a col-
lough back to this country. In 1910, he resigned and went back to
ting in things which are truly from Mondsce. He was a clerk at umn that evacuated Floss. He
the practice of law at which he has been busy ever since.
educational in the entertainment Floss. He beat many men to death .
Rosenberg is a constant traveler. He has been to England, Franck:, on the radio, there is no limit to After he beat them he woud turn gave the orders to his subordi-
Brazil, Portugal and Cuba. Next week, he plans to go on a visit to the amount of good that could be cold water on them. At Ober- nates that there were to be no
more head shots but only heart
Mexico. He speaks Spanish as well as he does English and delivers done.
traubling he had 600 prisoners; 250 shots. He also told them "Not to
frequent lectures in this tongue.
died between February and April, shoot so much as we did not
His great love is the arts. He has written frequent articles in MRS. EUGENE ABRAHAM, 2715 1945, due to dysentary and other have too much ammunition." An-
diseases caused by starvation, ith- other time he gave the order that
magazines on legal ethics, social problems, philosophy, economics and
Rochester.
proper care, abuses, indignities
the arts in general. He is the author of several book:. He writes a
no shooting take place in villages
No. I don't approve of these and harsh treatment.
great deal on Latin American subjects and is frequently called on thrilling programs the 'children
Number 43, Schwarz, comes from because of danger to inhabitants.
as an authority on these countries on which he has acquired a great listen to. They get upset emo-
tionally a n d
deal of information.
they cannot
He is now honorary consul for the Republic of Panama and is
really relax at
vice-dean of the Detroit Consular Corps. He is on the advisory board
night.
By LEON SAUNDERS
of the Detroit Economic Club, member of the board of the United
I would like
Hebrew Schools and on the library board of the Shaarey Zedek
to see a great
Synagogue with which he has been affiliated all the time he has lived
deal more mu-
in Detroit. He is treasurer of the Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith and
sic on the radio
for thirty years has been a member of the National Arts Club of
at the time
It is not Stendal's "Red and Black" that this article is going to
when children discuss. It is about "Red and Black," a book of stories by Sh. Miller,
New York to which city he goes whenever he can find the occasion.
listen. I would a Yiddish realist, who dwells in a modern world with different peo.
Rosenberg finds a keen interest in talking to youngsters. He
also like to see pie and with different names from those of the personages of Beyle
strikes up conversations with young people on the bus and streetca:
every broad-- but with the same passions, sufferings, loves and tragedies.
and on every occasion possible.
The title of the book is taken from the title of the first story
casting station
"It depresses me to find the youngsters of today so disillusioned. have child psychologists as a reg- of the book. It relates to the recent times of the invasion of the
cynical and sophisticated," he commented sadly. "Their viewpoint is ular part of their staff.
Nazis on a Russian village and to the heroic fight a young Jewish
terribly pessimistic. They seem to have no ideals. They appear to
There is a real danger in get- "partisan" puts up with "Right" conquering wrong and death itself.
Sh. Miller belongs to the realistic school in modern Yiddish lite-
have no reverence and no faith in anything. Why, I feel more youth- ting impressionable children accus-
ful myself than most of the youngsters I meet.
tomed to thinking of crime and rature, and due to personal reasons (his years on a sick bed) his
"It must be their environment," he continued. "They must be violence all the time. The results whole outlook was tinged with a Shopenhauerian hue. Death triumphs
surrounded by people' without ideals. I tell myself that this will all are getting to be evident in the in all his stories but not as the inevitable conclusion to every life;
with Sh. Miller, death is a triumphant conqueror, a mocker, striking
pass, that it is symptomatic of this age of tragedy. The same was newspapers when so many young.
right and left without reason out of time and out of bounds.
sters are committing crimes.
true after the last war but now things are much worse.
Miller has so far authored five volumes. His first volume is full
---s -
"The socalled independence of youth today is not a real inde-,
of stories of the disillusionment of an intellectual who arrives in
pendence. It is more a selfish abandonment of all r,straints which TERRY PRINCE, 3310 Chicago.
the U. S. fresh from Europe; his inability to adjust himself to the
Yes. Since children arc so eager
we had when I was young. There is little regard for the rights and
new environment, to the new type of a Jew who became "Amerh
to
listen
to
radio
programs,
there
feelings of others.
canned" the wrong way.
is
an
enormous
possibility
for
"There is a crying need for more self-discipline on the part of
In his second volume Miller gives us a kind of a "Magic Moon-
good
that
our
our young folk. They need to acquire a reverence for something or
tame atmosphere, and if it is not as great as Thomas Mann's novel.
educational au-
it is a remarkable exposition of the feelings, thoughts and emotions
somebody. Above all, they need inspiration."
The troubles of the world, he feels, will all be settled through thorities h a ve
of a man chained to the bed in a sanatorium.
not yet exploit-
The "Red and Black" collection of stories contains 13 narrative::.
education and general enlightenment.
ed to the fullest
three long ones and 10 short ones. In one, entitled "Al Nahar Hud-
"The answer to all difficulties is the extension of our horizon extent.
son," he returns to his favorite theme of an intellectual European
and a clear vision. We must strive for our ideals. We have slipped
I f eel that
who is compelled to work in a shop and commits suicide because
back but we can still go forward. The only realities are the things there ought to
he could not adjust himself to the new way of life.
be some kind
we dream about.
In the "Shroud" the author tries to inject a symbolistic idea in
"Our civilization is still only veneer," he added mournfully. of control by
a realistic narrative. During the occupation by the Germans of a
"Before we come to a greater understanding, we may destroy our- educational au-
small Russian town, a Nazi officer orders a uniforin from the vil-
selves with the atom bomb. There is real danger of that. But I do thorities on the
lage tailor, a Jew. When it is ready, he naturally does not pay him.
kind
of
pro-
.
have faith in ultimate humanity."
`-
Some time later, another officer brings the same uniform to the
Rosenberg is far from ready to retire. He thinks in terms of grams that can
of
cen-
tailor to mend, signifying that the first customer was dead. The tat-
go
over
the
air.
This
kind
many future years of activity. One of his dreams is to gather to-
lor takes all this philosophically and calls the suit "shroud" for all
sorship
has
so
many
problems,
gether the many manuscripts he has written for lecture purposes and
-
The Flossenberg Concentration Camp Case
(Continued)
Book Review
Red and Black
.
however, that I doubt If it will those who wear it and derives the satisfaction in believing there is
sort and analyze them for publication.
retribution in it.
He belongs to about 25 different organizations and tries to ever come into being.
Continued on Page 13)
Children listen to the same pro-
take part in the activities of them all.
that their parents do. The
grams
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle takes this occasion to congratulate censored programs probably would
Hebrew, English and Jewish books available at the Zion Book Store,
Louis James Rosenberg on his birthday and to wish him many more be ignored altogether.
9008 12th Streit, near Clairtnouas
years of health and happiness.