fi Israel Excluded Again THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspaper, Michigan Press Association, National Edi- torial Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., VE 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March 8, 1879. - PHILIVSLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG Business Manager • Advertising Manager City Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This -SObath. Shabbat Hagadol—the Great Sabbath—the eighth day of Nisan, 5721, the - . . following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Tzay. Lev. 6:1-8:36. ProphetiCal portion, Malachi 3:4-24. Licht Benshen, Friday, March 24, 6:30 p.m. VOL. XXXIX. No. 4 Page Four March 24, 1961 International Importance of Eichmann Trial bread with his coffee, and he invariably eats With more than 350 newspapermen from all parts of the world accredited to report the proceedings at the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the arch Nazi criminal who master-minded "the final solution of the Jewish problem," thereby aiming at the extermination of Jewry, the entire world will be watching with keen interest one of the most important court pro- ceedings in world history. The horrors that are certain to be exposed during the trial undoubtedly will shock the sensibilities of m a n k i n d. Nevertheless, there are developments preparatory to the trial that should put the prosecution on guard against negative aspects. There is the possibility that the wit- nesses to be summoned will include Israeli officials who were active in efforts to rescue. many Jews from. the . Nazi clutches. There are some who fear that the revelations may not be complimen- tary to the Jewish witnesses, but it is doubtful whether the means used to save the victims of Hitlerism can in any measure be judged . as unsavory. The rescue efforts involved not only the cir- cumventing of Nazi espionage, but also the policies that were then enforced by the Labor Government then in power in Great Britain to prevent the flight of Jews to Palestine. The indecencies -prac- tices, therefore, are on the ledger sheets of the Nazis and of the British who stood in the way of rescue activities, rather than of the Jewish Agency spokesmen and other Jewish leaders. The immediate danger arises on two fronts:, the predicted organization of a new anti-Semitic wave and the attempt to make a martyr of Eichmann. Insofar as the organized anti-Semitic activities are concerned, any new out- burst of hatred must react against the Nazi on trial, insofar as public opinion is concerned. There is no avoidance of such demonstrations, and if they must come at the time of the trial, let there be a double exposure of the re-emergence of Nazism. After all, that is the aim of the Israel government: to make the world aware again of the worst crime in history. _Israel's former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion thus defines the projected trial of Eichmann: "We want the nations of the world to know that there was an intention to exterminate a . people. That -intention had its roots in anti-Semitism. They should know that anti-Semitism is dangerous and they should be ashamed of it. I believe that through this trial all thinking people will come to realize that in our day the gas chamber and the soap factory are what anti-Semitism may lead to. And they will do what they can about it. Morally, I mean. I don't think anti-Semites should be _ exterminated." There remains the possibility that Eichmann may be turned into a "martyr" by the organized forces of anti-Semitism. A columnist in the Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, of London, in an item entitled "Eichmann Plays His Part," had this to say: "Evidently in preparation for the role which he has prepared for himself. Eichmann has already begun to act his part. He appears at all times as the correct and polite German officer who does as he is told, and who never does, thing without being told. Be stands to attention when he is visited and sits down only when asked to do so. He eats every- thing that is given to him on the asumption that this is the equivalent of an order. An illustration of this was a recent hitch over his breakfast. He normally gets three slices of them. One morning, recently, the cook made a mistake and gave him six slices instead of three. The guard noticed that he had eaten all six and asked Eichmann whether he had been left hungry on previous occasions and would like to have six slices in future. No, replied Eichmann, the three slices were quite enough. He had eaten the six because he had asumed that they were put on his plate so that he should eat them. It was just like an order. But how real is this Eichmann? This clearly will be the main issue at the trial, judging by the line taken by defense cotmsel." An effort will be made to prove that Eichmann merely followed orders that were mapped for him by the Nazi regime. He is already portrayed as a "loyal" ser- vant of the state and the claim is made that he was just a cog in the Nazi wheel. The accumulating evidence shows that he was the master-mind of one of the cruellest schemes ever perpetrated on mankind. He sought . mass 'extermination of an entire people. The world once again must become aware of the crime of genocide. Eichmann was the central figure in such -a scheme. It is through the evidence in the impending trial that an entire world must be led once again to know the dangers that lurk in many lands. There are cruelties in countries ruled by M o s l e m s and Communists. There is evidence of a re-emerging Nazi- Fascist ideology in many quarters. In its pamphlet, "Eichmann—Master of the Nazi Murder Machine," issued by the World Jewish Congress, the following conclusion, entitled "The Eichmann Trial and Jewish History," is arrived at: The Nuremberg trials, through depositions, documents, and other evidence submitted, brought to light for the first time the full `Let Us Never Forget the Nazi Crime Expose Author Pleads Has the world glossed over too indifferently the horrors of Nazism and the crimes of its leader, Adolf Hitler? Prof. Louis L. Snyder has set out to re-acquaint Americans with truth about the most tyrannical period in all history, and he has described the Hitlerian years dramatically in a well-writ- ten book," Hitler and Nazism," published by Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Madison, N.Y. 22. Dr. Snyder wrote his book for the younger readers, to make them aware of what had taken place, to cause them to know and to remember the tragedy of Hitlerism. Hitler's life and his party's activities are described graph- ically in 180 pages in Prof. Snyder's book. From "The Birth of a Tyrant" through "The End of a Nightmare"—the titles of the opening and closing chapters of the book—Dr. Snyder takes the reader through all the coarse and brutal details of the dictator,. Dr. Snyder shows how Hitler referred to everyone and everything he disliked as Jewish. To achieve his purpose he branded every opponent as a Jew. Hitler is described as a "most effective orator of the mass tragedy of the Jews under • the Nazis, insofar age," as possessing "the magic of the spoken word," as a "spell- as the human losses and methods to achieve binder devoid of humor." He possessed a magnetism over his them were concerned. But, because "genocide" audiences—"it was just like a religion," one of his followers said. was only one of the counts against the accused Hitler's associates are described in a chapter entitled and because, with the exception of Kalten- "Knights of the Crooked Cross." Included among them is "Adolf brunner, none of the top "final - solutioners" Eichmann, S.S. officer, who turned Nazi in his teens after a band were fried, the psychological factors of the of Nazi thugs mistook him for a Jew and --beat him up. The mass murder were little touched upon. Cer- names of Julius Streicher, Martin Bormann, Rudolf Hoess, von tainly, the term "final solution." (apparently Ribbentrop and others are among the listed . criminals. with another meaning) had appeared some time before the war; Hitler threatened the annihilation of the Jews if war (in his view, provoked by the Jews)- were to break out, and there was, in general, little dOubt about the viciousness of the Nazi brand of anti-Semitism. Nonetheless, there is still a world of difference between a boycott, pauperization, forced emi- gration, and even a pogrom of the kind of the Crystal Night, on the one hand, and the cold- blooded methodical murder of millions of inno- cent people, even if they happen to be of an "inferior race" or "sworn enemies" of Germany, on the other. The essence of Nazism, as de- scribed in the introduction, offers an explana- tion in general terms of how this mass slaugh- Hitler is exposed in this book not only for- his anti- Semitism but also his racial mania and his assault on Chris- tianity. Dr.- Snyder shows how Hitler organized the youth, "to pro- vide for the education of future Nazi leaders, Hitler set up 32 special schools." There is - a description of Hitler's last days, his love affair with Eva Braun, - their marriage and suicide pact. The "evil, and most monstrous being who ever breathed," his inspiration was 'cruelty, - "persecution and torture and massacre were his means," the author asserts in describing how "horror followed horror" under Hitler. He concludes by deploring that the children - had. known nothing about the Nazi crimes, that: r "Their parents and their teachers had told them nothing of these shameful things. As decent youngsters, they recoiled I from the spectacle of destruction, suffering and cruelty. "This was. the legacy - of shame Adolf Hitler left to a new, innocent generation of German children. "Hitler's rule was a terrible and almost incredible chapter in history. We must never forget it. For the sake of decency, for the sake of the world's future, let us never forget it." ter was possible, but the trial of Eichmann could and—it is hoped—will provide a direct deep insight into the workings of the minds of those directly responsible for the final solu- tion, something no author and no- documents, however ingenious and important they may be, respectively can do. The trial will undoubtedly also fill certain gaps in our knowledge of the "chain of command" in the "final solution" and the individual responsibility of those who belonged thereto—a gap primarily due to the disappearance of a considerable part of the One of the early works of Baruch Spinoza that is con- Nazi documents, in particular the files of Eich- mann's office, and the death of most of the sidered major among his philosophical expressions, ''Principles of Cartesian Philosophy," has been published in a new edition victims of the "final solution", etc. It is certain that "the gaps" that will by Philosophical Library (15 E. 40th, N.Y. 16). • In a new translation by Harry E. Wedeck, with a preface be filled by the impending trial will throw by Dr. Dagobert D. Runes, the work by Spinoza interprets Car- light on all the relevant facts. tesian thought, the principles of its philosophy and its views on The Eichmann trial is aimed not metaphysics. merely at exposing the crimes of the past, Runes describes Spinoza's haVing been touched by '"the but also to guide peoples to avoid their greatness of Cartesianism, its elevation of reason to competence repetition in the future. That is why the and of doubt as the sole gate to knowledge." He points to court case that - is to commence in Jeru- Hebraic influences in Spinoza's thinking. Wedeck's splendid translation helps to make this a note- salem on April 11 is of such great worthy book. international and historic importance. Spinoza on Cartesianism -