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Niemoller, in Nazi Prison,
Denies He Is Anti-Semite
Admits He Was Dupe of Hitler and His Henchmen, Dr.
Leo Stein Reveals in New Book
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African Affairs
Head Criticizes
Plan by Hoover
Assails Proposal to Settle
Jews in Upper Areas
of Central Africa
Dr. Leo Stein, German-Jewish teacher of law at the
University of Berlin, was an eye-witness to the tortures in
NEW YORK, (JTA) — In a
the German concentration camps. He had the good fortune
letter sent to leading New York
—if it may be called good fortune td be able to tell the
world one's experiences for the
sake of exposing evil—to be priv-
ileged to escape the tortures of
Naziism and to bring a message
from the sufferers to mankind
at large.
Pastor Martin Niemoeller, the
martyr for the cause of religion
in • Germany, was a camp-mate
of Dr. Stein who was released
when his wife secured an Amer-
ican visa for him.
. "Tell the world what you have
seen and heard," Pastor Nie-
moeller told him as he departed
from the concentration camp
where there were thousands of
Protestants, Catholics and Jews,
disregarding the consequences
that such action might bring
upon himself, still a Nazi pris-
oner.
tain restrictions against the Jews
seemed to me tolerable, consid-
ering the great aims the Nazis
were driving at. At that time I
did not realize that we would
have to pay for these restric-
tions with our own liberty. I
did not fully take into account
that equality had been given to
the Jews during our epoch of
political liberalism, and that any
restriction imposed on them
would mean the end of that
epoch, and possibly the end of
individual liberty, including the
right of worship. In other words,
to deprive the Jews of political
equality would mean turning
back the wheels of history. Yes,
that is the truth I learned. And
I think that it is not sufficiently
RABBIS, PRIESTS TORTURED
realized by the anti-Semites in
Dr. Stein fulfilled his mission other countries."
and wrote a book, "I Was In
Hell With Niemoeller," just pub-
lished by Fleming H. Revell Co.,
158 Fifth Ave., New York. In
this moving tale of suffering Dr.
Stein relates how rabbis and
priests are being humiliated and
tortured in Nazi concentration
camps.
Vividly describing the sava- Corporal in Pacific Sends
gery practiced by the Nazi
$25 as First Instalment
guards upon their victims in the
'For Palestine'
concentration camps, including
the heroic Pastor Niemoeller who
Since his boyhood days, Cpl.
was a German U-boat command-
er in the last World War, Dr. Philip R. Guthrie, who is now
Stein reveals Niemoeller's atti- attached to a Station Hospital
tude towards the Jews, and somewhere in the Pacific, had a
"great, compelling interest in
quotes him as saying:
Israel and the message it has for
TRUE CHRISTIAN
a war-torn world," and in recent
NO ANTI-SEMITE
years he was greatly saddened
"I have never been what could
by the sufferings of "your people
be called anti-Semitic, for a true
whom I have come, in a spiritual
Christian can never be anti-
sense, to love as 'my' people
Semitic. From the viewpoint of
also."
the Christian faith the so-called
This week Charles J. Rosen-
Jewish question does not exist.
When I voted for the Nazi Party bloom, national co-treasurer of
it was not with any intention of the United Jewish Appeal for
expressing any sort of animosity Refugees, Overseas Needs and
towards the Jews. I looked upon Palestine, received a letter from
the anti-Semitic slogans of the the Christian service man with
National Socialists merely as which he enclosed a money or-
catch phrases, which were re- der for $25.
grettable, but unavoidable in the
It was his first instalment on
interest of the ultimate aim. And his pledge to set aside a substan-
I was convinced that after they tial portion of his army pay for
gained power, the National So- the nationwide campaign in be-
- would put a stop to anti- half of the Joint Distribution
Semitism and restore the Jews Committee, United Palestine Ap-
to their former rights."
peal and National Refugee Serv-
Asked by Dr. Stein whether ice. Corporal Guthrie said he
he had not read "Mein Kampf" would "like it to go to the de-
in which Hitler expressly states velopment of Palestine with a
that he would destroy the Jews view to readjusting the neglect-
as soon as he attained power, ed children of Europe there."
Pastor Niemoeller replied:
"Yes, I read 'Mein Kampf.' But
Ruined Jewish Centers
we had been assured again and
Topic
of Lecture Series
again by Hitler himself and oth-
er responsible leaders that 'Mein
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Kampf' represented nothing but
a literary ebullition of the leader of lectures on Jewish centers in
of the Nazi Party and was by Europe destroyed during the war
no means to be taken as a po- has been inaugurated at the He-
litical program. To confirm this, brew University. The lectures
we were told also that the fu- will commemorate those Jewish
ture foreign policy advocated in communities which played a
the book would be impossible of leading part in Jewish public
execution so that no one would and cultural life in the past.
ever dream of attempting to
Among the lecturers are Prof.
carry it out. The proposed set- B. Z. Dinaburg and Joseph
tlement of the so-called Jewish Klausner, who will lecture on
question was regarded in the Odessa; Prof. J. Gutman, who
same fashion.
will speak on the Berlin com-
ADMITS JUDGMENT MISTAKEN munity; Prof. M. H. Torczyner
"Indeed," Pastor Niemoeller is and M. F. Lachover, who will
further quoted as saying, "I cer- deal with the history of Warsaw;
tainly am not free from re- Prof. Hugo Bergman, who will
proach, because at that time cer- speak on Prague; Dr. M. Broido.
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newspapers last week, Dr. Max
Yergan, executive director of the
Council on African Affairs, con-
demned as "characteristic of the
outworn ideologies of appease-
ment and imperialism" the sug-
gestion made by Herbert Hoover
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"Mr. Hoover's proposal for the
Central Africa.
arbitrary segregation of the Jews
Mr. Hoover's proposal was at the expense of the Africans,"
made in a speech telephoned the letter continued, "runs coun-
from San Franciscd to the closing ter to the principle of national
session of the Emergency Con- self-determination embodied in
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"Hoover's plan," Dr. Yergan
Chairman of the Council on
said, "is of the same pattern and African Affairs is the noted
cloth as Senator Bilbo's plan for Negro singer Paul Robeson. Wil-
solving the question of Negro liam Jay Schieffelin is vice-
rights in America by shipping all chairman and John Hammond,
American Negroes 'back to treasurer.
Africa.' " Dr. Yergan criticized
the former President for regard-
ing Africa, and particularly the
mandated areas, as apparently
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