Friday, September 3, 1943 THE JEWISH NEWS Barr WAR BONDS ATTAct 3rd War Loan Its 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 U t o yO r to t o ve pat ' 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 JERUSALEM (JTA)—A series 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. Gentile Soldier Pledges Donation To Jewish Appeal 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 Page Seventeen This Advertisement Sponsored By P. L. 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