Friday, April 4, 1947
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Hit Bigots Hard, Often,
Says New J ► V Chief
Named Aide to Connecticut Governor
.
Derides 'Hush, Hush' Policy. Asserts
Fascist Must Be Exposed, Ridiculed
By MILTON H. RICHMAN
National 'Commander,
Jewish War Veterans
(Col. Richman is a veteran of
both Wdrld Wars. During the
World War II, he served on the
G-5 staff of Gen. Patton's famed
Third Army and spent over a
year in Europe after the Ger-
man surrender as part of the
Army of Occupation. Close to
war crimes trials, he was in a
good position to evaluate the
causes of the growth of anti-
Semitism in Germany before the
war and to know from personal
knowledge the minds of the
present day Germans.)
A S ONE WHO HAS returned
I- I. from occupied Germany less
than a year after an extended
period of participation, I cannot
help but view anti-Semitic mani-
festations in the United States
from the perspective of my experi-
ence in Germany with both hate
indoctrinated Nazi officials and
with the ordinary run-of-the-mill
Germans who drifted into the
ways of Nazism because it seem-
ed to them the simplest and saf-
est thing to do.
I look at the Bilbos, the Gerald
K. Smiths, the Columbians and
the other haters in terms of the
Goerings, the Streichers, and the
IIimmlers of the Nazi hierarchy;
I try to make comparisons, and
by such comparison to evaluate
the techniques that should best be
applied to our American brand of
would-be Hitters.
I wonder whether Streicher
could have been reasoned with;
whether it would have been pos-
sible to convince this brute by a
Fortune Magazine survey that the
Jews didn't control the wealth of
Germany. • • •
GOERING'S RESPONSE
I WONDER WHETHER the
fabulous, fat, bemedaled Goering,
imbued with the will to power,
would have been amenable to a
reasoned and careful dissertation
on the virtues of democracy over
dictatorship. .
I wonder whether Himmler, the
swaggering, cruel Gestapo chief,
the personification of the corner
bully, wouldn't have had more re-
spect for a punch in the jaw than
a panel discussion on the rights
of minorities.
The answers are obvious, but
we think of them all too seldom
as we listen to the pontifical theo-
ries of the over-public relations
minded technicians who seek to
solve the human problems of emo-
tionand hate in terms of the ad-
vertising huckster who has suc-
cessfully sold soap or automobiles
or dog mood.
I by no means wish to imply
lack of sympathy or disagreement
with the principles of programs of
inter-cultural education in the
public schools; of inter-faith meet-
ings between the peoples of diver-
gent faiths; with the educational
lectures and pamphleteering that
is carried on in labor, business
and youth groups. These are all
worthy long range educational
projects; on their success rests not
only the hopes of the Jews and
other minorities, but of the Am-
erican democracy itself.
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CAN'T CURE BIGOTS
BUT IT IS ASKING too much
of educational techniques to ex-
pect that they can cure the di.
seased minds of such full grown
bigots as Gerald Smith, Joseph
Kamp and Senator Bilbo, to name
just a few. The place of educa-
tion in the fight for the preserva-
tion of democracy is with the
great mass of Americans whose
prejudices derive from ignorance
and lack of understanding of their
neighbors.
We found this same thing true
in Gel litany. The Nazi stalwarts
were beyond our reach; we were
wasting our time, and only kid-
ding ourselves, when we thought
we could re-educate them to an
appreciation of democracy.
Were it not for the limitations
imposed upon us by our own de-
gree of civilization and decency,
we might well have eliminated
them from the face of the earth.
We did this very thing with Goer-
ing and some of his close associ-
ates; and although we are not go-
ing to hang every Nazi indoctrin-
ated follower we might write
them off, insofar as their ever be-
coming good citizens of a democ-
racy. They are too far gone, par-
ticularly those who lived the for-
mative early years of their life in
Nazi youth hostels.
SHA, SHA TECHNIQUE
OTHERS BESIDES MYSELF
realize that the Smiths and the
Bilbos are beyond reclamation;
that education will not reconvert
them to useful citizens. But too
many of the leaders and techni-
cians in the fight against anti-
Semitism counsel a soft glove pol-
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"Ignore them when they come
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help develop interest in the meet-
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sway a community to a policy of
un-Americanism, then there is no
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Gov. James L McConaughy of Connecticut appointed Lt. Col. Mil-
ton II. Richman of Ilartford, Comm., as, one of his military aides.
Col. Richman, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans
of the U. S., served on the staff of Gen. Patton. He is the first Jew
.to be appointed a military aide to the Governor of Connecticut.
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Greetings of the Season
or Bilbo or 'whatever it may be
— with every weapon at our dis-
posal. Ridicule him; expose his
financial machinations; direct the
light of day on his perversions
and private life; put, him in jail if
he breaks the law; hit him 'hard
with everything we've got.
There is a bandwagon psychol-
ogy — the favorite defense for
the hush-hush point of view --
but remember the bandwagon fol-
lows the strong man. 'If Hitler
were crushed before he got strong,
there wouldn't have been a Hitler
for the bandwagon to follow.
There are times, of course,
when for reasons 1,9 strategy —
such as lack of proper evidence --
it is advisable to wait out a de-
veloping bigot. But my point is
that once he has exposed himself
by his words and actions that the
proper technique — the democra-
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hard with everything you've got.
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