Purely Commentary JERUSALEM,' Israel.—For the benefit of the 450 foreign correspondents attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann at the Beth Ha-Am, the Israel Police attached to the Eichmann Trial Administration has issued an inch-thick book containing a Glos- sary of Nazi terms—in German, with French and English trans- lations. This Glossary "is not yet perfect and changes are being made in accordance with increased understanding." A ForeWord to the Glossary. explains: When translating Nazi terminology one must bear in mind that this language has a most specific sound and nature, • but can not be considered as educated German. Not to take these characteristics. into consideration would introduce an element of forgery. In most cases this language has been coined by "Teutonic cranks," "Dentschtumler" etc. It is designed to convey emotion by a choice of archaic, pompous and colourful terminology, and was meant to create a feeling of strength in its listeners and users. It is, of course, difficult to . render such expressions into English, but the attempt must be and has been made in this glossary. It must be further remembered that the majority of the Nazi leaders came from low social strata: they were, in fact, riff-raff, and Winston Churchill's description of Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" got close to the truth. They made up for their lack of education by latching on to impressive- sounding words, which were frequently linguistic monstrosi- ties. Your Commentator shares these terms with you—upsetting as they may be—in order to offer a guide to the thinking and deviltry of the Nazis. Some of -the terms selected for incorpora- tion in this column do not mention Jews, but they have. reference to the Holocaust. Here is the relevant selection: German French Abgase Aussiedlungshauptstab gaz d'echappement centre de transfert, d'expatriation Aussiedlungsstab Bereinigung des Judenproblems Einwanderunsbera- tungsstelle entjuden service de transfert, d'expatriation reglement du probleme juif Centre de conseil pour immigrants dejudaiser; i'endre pur des Juifs entjudet Entjudung von . Geltungsjude dejudaise dejudaisation de . . . considere comme Juif Gesett gegen die Ueber- fullung von deut- schen Schulen und Hochschulen Loi contre le surnombre aux ecoles et aux Uni- versites allemandes Gesetz uber die Einbe-' ziehun,g volks-u. staats- feindlichen Vermo- gens Gesetz uber den Wider- ruf von. Eiriburgerttn- geri u.d. - Aberkennung- der deutschen Staats- angehorigkeit Gesetz uber die Wieder- herstellung des Berufs- beamtentums GesetZ zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes und der' deutschen Ehre Loi sur la confiscation des biens d'elements hostiles au peuple et a 1'Etat Loi sur is resiliation ..des naturalisations et sur la decheance de la nationalite alle- mande Loi sur le reetablisse- ment de l'etat des fonctionnaires pro- fessionels Loi sur la protection du sang et de l'honneur allemand Generalkommissar (tat) fur Judenfragen comm-issaire general des affaires juives Ghettoisierung Ghetoisation Grenzinspektor Halbjude Inspektion der Konzen- trationslager Institut fur wehrwissen- schaftliche' 'Zweckfor- schung Institut fur Aufklarung der Judenfrage Internationales Institut zur Aufklarung der Judenfrage inspecteur de frontiere demi-Juif inspection des camps de concentration' - Institut de recherches des sciences militaires appliqu'ees • • - institut pour l'eclair- cissernent de _ la ques- tion juive institut international pour l'eclaircissement de la question juive IKG-Israelitisch Kultusgemeinde Judendezernat departement des Juifs Judenrat conseil des Juifs, Judenreferat judenrein departement des Juifs pur de Juifs Judensachberater Judenstern Judensteuer judischer Mischling l. Grades 2. Grades J.K.G.-Judische Kultusgemeinde Judenfrage judenfrei conseiller des affaires juives Etoile des Juifs impots de Juifs Juif de sang mete du premier degre du deuxieme degre communaute cultuelle juive (pas culturelle) question juive pur de Juifs Judenproblem Judenmassnahmen probleme juif mesures contre les Juifs judische Frage, die judischer Gemeindever- band judische Problem, das judisches Gemeinwesen la question juive -. • Association des com- munautes juives le probleme juif fonctionnement et or- ganisation ' des corn- munautes juives "marquage" des Juifs train-modele Kennzeichen der Juden Musterzug communaute juive Nebenlager camp accessoire Nichtglaubensjude nicht mosaischer Jude Juif non-religieux. Juif qui nest pas de foi mosaique service d'ordre Ordnungsdienst Rasse(n) jude rassenpolitisches Amt Rassenpolitik Rassenreinheit Rassenschancle Juif selon la race bureau de politique raciale politique raciale purete de la race honte raciale Rassenzugehorigkeit appartenance raciale Rasse-u. Siedlungshaup- Bureau central "Race taint (RuSHa) et etablissement" English ExhauSt gases G.H.Q. deportations, in "Madagascar" plan, to organize uprooting of Jews from their places of residence Deportation H.Q. (action) Solution of the Jewish problem Immigration advisory centre dejew; to clear any- thing of Jews and their influence dejewed dejewing Jew by law (i.e. not by religion) law against the over- crowding of German schools and univer- sities (expulsion of Jewish students) Law of the confisca- tion of state and folk hostile wealth Glossary of Nazi Terms Denoting State of Mind ' of Hitlerite Criminals German French By Philip- Slomovitz Report Decline of Vilna Jewry English • NEW YORK, (JTA) -- Vilna, the capital of Soviet Lithuania, - w h i c h was sometimes called "the second Jerusalem" as a flourishing center of Hebrew' • Reichsvereinigung der "Reich" Association Juden Deutschlands of Jews in Germany learning before the war, now has 16,500 Jews left out of Reichsvertretung der Juden Deutschlands 200,000, and one shabby syna- gogue. Few of the 16,500 were Reichszentralstelle fur "Reich" Central Office judische Auswanderung for Jewish Emigra- survivors, many of them corn- tion ing from other places. ' RFSS-Reichsfuhrer SS title borne by Himmler only The impact of the war, the RSHA-Reichssicherheits- abbreviation of Reich hauptamt security head office Nazi occupation and the Soviet RuS abbreviation of Race takeover were reported in the and settlement head New York Times by Seymour office RuS-Aussenstelle representation a abbreviation of Race Topping from Vilna. He wrote 1 etranger de las RUS and settlement that no thing illustrates the branch (abroad) RuSHA-Rasse-u. Sied- Race and Settlement changes in the composition of lungshauptamt head office Sachberater fur the population. of Vilna more conseiller des questions adviser on Jewish Judenfragen juives affairs than the changed status of Schutzpass passeport de sauvegarde protective passport. (for Jews, issued by Vilna's Jewish community. certain* The Nazis, he reported, killed "Sturmer" ("der St") quotidien nazi, "The Sturmer," an estimated 80,000 Jews in ("L'Assaut") Streicher's Antisemite rag prison camps. The Jewish insti- Treuhandstelle fur das Administration des biens Trust authority for Judenvermogen tute, library, schools and most des Juifs Jewish property Verordnung uver Anmel- decret concernant la regulation for the synagogues were r a z e d. The dung des Vermogens declaration des biens registration of von Juden correspondent described t h e des Juifs Jewish property Verordnung uber eine decret concernant les regulation on an ex- only remaining synagogue as Suhneleistung der punitions expiatoires piatory act on part Juden deutscher Staats- des Juifs de na- of the German Jews "a shabby buildin g, with angehorigkeit tionalite allemande boarded windows." On the Seder Verordnung zur Aus- decret pour l'expulsion regulation for the schaltung der Juden night of last Passover, 250 wor- des Juifs de la vie elimination of the aus dem deutschen economique allemande Jews from the shippers attended services, most Wirtschaftsleben German economy Volljude Juif dans toute of them middle-aged or elderly. full-blooded Jew l'acception du mot A leader of Vilna's Jews told Zentralamt fur die bureau central pour le Central Bureau for Regelung der Juden- reglement de la the Solution of the the correspondent that Jews frage question juive Jewish Problem were free to worship "but these Zentralamt fur judische bureau central pour Central Bureau for Auswanderung are all who come to the syna- l'emigration juive Jewish Emigration Zwangsterilizirung sterlilisation de force gogue now." compulsory abortion Sterilisierung Compulsory About 100 boys become Bar sterilisation Mitzvah each year, although * Governments (Sweden, etc.) Soviet regulations forbid religi- These appear as mere words. But they are more than just ous instruction by all religious words. They are part of a vocabulary linked to the crime of groups in Lithuania. genocide. The 1959 census listed Lithu- Let the words be known again—so that the entire crime anians as making up a third of the population and Jews about may •he exposed. seven percent. R•eichsstelle .(des Innen- niinisteriums) fur das _Auswanderungswesen Service .du Reich (du Ministere de l'Inte- rieur) pour les affaires ayant point a l'emigration Association des Juifs allemands dans le Reich Representation des Juifs allemands dans le Reich Bureau central pour l'e l'emigration des Juifs "Reich" Emigration Bureau Dead Sea Finds Told to Israeli Cabinet; Reveal Mishnaic Period (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) cussions in the Talniud concern- 1 of the scrolls were found tied JERUSALEM — President Itz- ing the methods of tying and with a number of strings with the hak Ben-Zvi and Prime Minister, binding deeds and the validity i signature of a different witness Ben-Gurion were present when a of the witnesses' signatures; Some : alongside each string. Law of naturalization formal report on the recent Dead retraction and the Sea archaeological finds was pre- withdrawal of Ger- man nationality (di- sented to the members of the Boris Smolar's rected against Jews) Cabinet and the Jewish Agency Law on the recon- Executive by the Hebrew Univer- struction of the civil service (exclu- sity group who carried out the sion of Jews) Law for the protection excavations. The report included of German blood the first showing of the more than and honour (against marriage, etc. with 430 bronze, ivory and ebony Jews) relics dating back to the Chal- Commissar (ist) (Copyright 1961, General for Jewish colithic period nearly 6,000 years Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) affairs ago. - Ghettoisation (con- EICHMANN ECHOES centrating Jews in While some of the items were Ghettoes) identifiable as utensils, weapons Students of world affairs in this country—many of them non- border inspector half-Jew or sacrificial implements, it is Jews—are puzzled by the attitude of the Soviet Government Inspectorate of Con- not known what purposes the toward the Eichmann trial . . . And so also are people within centration Camps Institute for Applied large majority of relics served. the Soviet Union, as can be seen from the Soviet press . . . From Defense Research All the items show extremely the very beginning, Moscow has refused to cooperate with Israel Institute for the ClaH- highly developed artistic handi- in the trial preparations . . . While other Communist govern- fication of the Jew- craft skills. ments provided material on Nazi atrocities committed against ish Problem International Institute Jews in their countries under Eichmann's orders, the Soviet The report also disclosed the for the Clarification contents of ten of the 50 or 60 authorities refused to supply such material . . . Moscow's flimsy of the Jewish Problem scrolls dating to the Bar Kochba excuse was that all the material on Eichmann's mass-murder of Jewish religious period in the second century Soviet citizens has already been submitted during the Nurem- . community Jews Department .(for C.E., found in three bundles in berg trial of the Nazi war criminals • .. Now that the Eichmann dealing with) the Dead Sea caves. All ten of trial is going on in Jerusalem, attracting worldwide attention, Jews Council (Nazi sponsored collabora- the scrolls were legal documents the Soviet press is using the proceedings more for propaganda tionist council of concerning the sale or lease of against Israel and against West German than against Eichmann , Jews) vide: Indendezernat land. Three of the documents . - . And this despite the fact there are very few Russian cities Jew-pure (i.e. no written in elegant Mishnaic He- which were occupied by the Germans where there are no mass Jews) Jewish affairs adviser brew were lease contracts for graves of local Jews herded together and killed by the Nazi • land in the Ein Gedi area exe- units operating under Eichmann's orders during the occupation Star of David Jew, tax cuted by Bar Kochba through period . . . The largest mass-grave of tens of thousands of Jewish mongrel an agent. annihilated Soviet Jews is on the outskirts of Kiev, the capital 1st degree 2nd degree The legal expressions in the of Soviet Ukraine, which was in the hands of the German Army Jewish religious contracts shed important light on for many months . . . Many other such graves are known to community Jewish problem . life in Mishnaic times and on exist in numerous cities and towns in the Ukraine, Byelo-Russia, Jew-free (i.e. no the history of Jewish law. Names and the Baltic countries which are now part of the Soviet Union - Jews Jewish problem of some places which were known . . - There are undoubtedly also Jewish survivors who could Jewish measures but have never been geographic- come from the Soviet Union to the trial in Jerusalem to give (against) Jewish . problem ally identified were also men- damning eye-witness testimony -against Eichmann . • But Moscow Jewish Community tioned in the contracts. The sig- is adament in refusing to produce the evidence against Eichmann federation the Jewish problem nature of a witness on one of in documents and in living witnesses . . The Soviet press also Jewish communal the documents corresponded to tries to give its readers the false impression that Israel wants . affairs . . the name of a person known to "soft-pedal" the Eichmann trial for the sake of the Bonn marking of the Jews sample trainload of re- from the Bar Kochba letters dis- Government . . . The Soviet magazine New Times, published leased Jews covered last year. . in Moscow simultaneously in various languages for dissemination (gesture) Other documents written in abroad, admits that "many readers" in the USSR are greatly sub-camp (to a larger concentration camp) Aramaic also dealt with land interested in the Eichmaim trial .. . However, all the magazine non-assenting Jew transactions, while some con- tells them in reply to their inquiries is propaganda against Israel non-mosaic Jew cerned contracts relating to mar- linked to propaganda against the present government of West order service (of riages or the guardianship . of Germany which Moscow dislikes . . . Is the Soviet Government Jews or trustees) Jew by race orphans. One scroll was written sold out so strongly to the Arabs that it cannot find a word in Bureau of Race in Greek with an Aramaic sum- favor of Israel even when an archenemy of humanity is on trial Politics race policy mary. Each .docuMent bad three there? . . —These and other similar questions have been put racial purity racial infamy (sexual dates representing the year of to me by American intellectuals who are not Jews . . . They relations with non- rule of the Roman emperor, the cannot understand the Soviet attitude toward the Eichmann aryan) year of rule of the Roman con- trial, especially when Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other racial membership RuSlIa-race and sul and the local calendar date. Communist countries have been helpful in producing evidence settlement head The discovery may clarify dis- against Eichmann. office 'Between You ...and Me' . .