THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, June 9, 196 1 Purely Commentary William L. Shirer, one of America's most distinguished newspapermen, who was a correspondent for American news- papers in Germany during the crucial years of Hitler's rise to power and_his launching of the tragic war .on several countries and especially on Jewry, has earned the everlasting gratitude - of world public opinion for his - documented exposes of the Nazi crime and its perpeiratdrs. Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," published last year and still on top • of the best seller list, is now supplement- ed with another very important book, "The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler," published by Random House. The latter is of even greater importance than the large documentary because it was writ- ten for young readers and because it states in the simplest possible terms, understandable by people of all ages, how Hitler came to power, the extent of his atrocities and the manner in which the Ger- man people aided and abetted the Wm. L. Shirer crime. - Expose of Hitler's Crimes by Shirer: Great Service to Couse of Truth By Philip Slomovitz Localites Granted MD Degrees at WSU Exercises who was asked by the judge whether the order to exterminate the Jews included the:children and whether all the Jewish chil- dren Were murdered; End the reply was "yes." Shirer states at Doctor of Medicine degrees will be conferred on 71 Wayne State University College of Medi- cine seniors at commencement exercises June 22 at Cobo Hall. Degree candidates include Norman Ratter, 18077 Schaefer; Joel Silberg, 19321 Votrobeck Dr.; Marvin Silver, 26511 Cool- idge, Oak Park; Leonard Shlain, 25241 Gardner, Oak Park; Sidney Seltzer, '15847 Woodingham; Mar- tin Nosan, 18771 Shaftsbury; Ir- win Finkelstein, 18309 Washburn; Allen Stone, 14130 Wales, Oak Park; Howard Lazarson, 843 Whit- more Rd. Also, Louis Silverman, 8432 E. Jefferson; Larry Beck, 2927 Bu- ena Vista; Richard Ruzumna, 18309 Littlefield; Richard Schiff, 18419 Hartwell; Kenneth Wein- berger, 20208 Hartwell; and Stan- ley Wolfe, 17550 Schaefer. Graduates who will intern in Detroit are Silberg 'and *Silver, Sinai Hospital; Seltzer, Harper Hospital; Finkelstein, Women's Hospital; Stone, Receiving. Rotter will intern at Ford Hospital, Dearborn. Interns to serve outside Michi- gan are Shlain, Mt. ZiOn Hospi- tal, San Francisco, Calif.;"Nosan, Madigan Army Hospital, Tacoma, Wash.; Silverman, Philadelphia General Hospital, Pa.; _ and Beck Lazarson, Ruziimna, Schiff, Wein- berger and Wolfe, Los Angeles County General HoSpital, Calif. • this point: . "The slaughter of More than five million human beings Jews was the macabre consequence and be who happened to the shattering cost of the anti-Semitic madness which came over Adolf Hitler in his youthful days as a tramp in Vienna. It was a disease he imparted to — or shared with — many . of his German followers." . Hitler, Shirer ,points out, "having blamed the Jews for start- ing the war, placed on them 'sole responsibility' not only for all the millions of deathS on the battlefields and in the bombed towns but for his own massacre of millions of Jews!" And throughout the record of Hitler's insanities there is evidence of his constant demand that his people wage wars. Several times, Hitler's generals made attempts on his life. They paid dearly for it. The attempt of July 20, 1944, when 'a bomb was planted where Hitler was sitting at 'a generals' meet- ing, also failed because Colonel Brandt unknoWingly brushed aside the briefcase that contained the bomb. (In his report from Germany, this Commentator erroneously stated that it was the half-Jew General Mulch, who headed the Gernian air force, who had brushed aside the briefcase). Colonel Brandt and not Hitler lost his life. Then came a wholesale massacre of army officers. July 20, 1944, is constantly referred to by- Germans as proof that not all of the German people had backed Hitler. It only proved that not all in the army had backed him. Shirer concludes his account of the rise and fall Of Hitler with the statement: - The failure of the people of Germany to rebel against the sadistic tyrant represents the saddest part of the years of horror under Nazism. After describing how Hitler'S lieutenants destroyed the city of Lidice in Czechoslovakia—even non-Jews, as in Lidice, were not secure once Hitler decided •upon his inhuman policy of annihilating those he aimed to subdue — Shirer states: "Fortunately for mankind the New Order was destroyed in its infancy — but not until the captive peoples of Europe had lived through the nightmare of . its first horrors. The New Order was not brought down by any revolt of the German people against such barbarism but by the. defeat of German arms, the consequent overrunning of Germany by the victorious Allies, and the fall of Adolf Hitler." "The remembrance of the grisly world nightmare he pro- voked, of the millions of innocent beings he slaughtered, of the hurt he did to the human spirit, lingers on. The memory fades but slowly as the years pass and mankind resumes its age-old effort to make the world a more decent place in which to live." With his expose of Hitler and Hitlerism, in this and in his earlier books, William L. Shirer has made a great contribution Elsewhere in his book on Hitler's _rise and fall he blames towards the task of preventing the 'recurrence of Hitlerism. For having done that, we are greatly indebted to him. As journalist 'the German people. And he does not spare some of Europe's and historian, he thus has made his greatest contribution to statesmen. "He fooled the statesmen of Europe as easily as he , - - mankind. - had hoodwinked his fellow Germans," he declares. Shirer blames those who ruled the democratic German Republic before Hitler came to power for not having read the book he had written while in prison—"Mein Kampf"—and for not having taken it seriously. He declares: "No one can say that British• Pro-Nazis Reported to Have Plotted to Kidnap Israel Ambassador Lourie as Hostage for Adolf Eiehinann Adolf Hitler did not give full warning' of the barbarian world he intended to make." As in his larger book, "The Rise and Fall of the. Third Reich," (published by Simon and Schuster), Shirer admits that Hitler "was undoubtedly a genius," and he adds: "But it must be added at once that he was an evil genius, one of the cruelest, most bloodthirsty and barbarous tyrants who ever lived. . . . Before he died. at the age of 56 he had massacred millions of innocent persons, including some five million Jews. And he had plunged the world into the bloodiest and most destructive, war in history." A new type of evil men has. arisen now, 16 years after (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) , the collapse of the Hitler regime,- to claim that the story of the xnurder of six million Jews has been fabricated by Jews. Eichmann's son is being permitted to ridicule the victims of his father and of Hitler while enjoying the freedom of a visit in this country, and it is therefore a bit puzzling that Shirer should speak of "some five million Jews" having been mur- dered. If it is possible for honest men to reduce the number of Jewish dead by a million, why can't a Nazi a Rockwell; or a Nicholas Eichmann and their ilk—bargain down another few million? The Nuremberg trial records • speak of six million Jewish dead—and some have testified that there was an even larger number of Hitler victims—and for the sake of historical truth there must be no bargaining on any of the points in volved in the total expose of the -Nazis. — It is only on the figure", as quoted' 'by Shirer, that. we can possibly differ with him in his book in which he interprets the Hitler menace with such accuracy. Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler"- offers a mass of data to show how Hitler demanded of his generals that they --proceed to wage war against Germany's neighbors, in order to Nazify all of Europe. Only England •escaped—miractiously—from the Hitler crusade against humanity. -Yet, in his final days, Hitler embarked upon a new type' of propaganda campaign — claiming that the Jews started the war. One must wonder how many • ' Germans, who 'did not raise a finger against Naziim, who failed to rebel against the mass murder of millions of innocent people, believing everything their sainted fuehrer told them, also, be- - lieved that charge of the already-defeated master? Insofar as the German people are concerned, their sub- mission to the . most perverted mind of Hitler representt a sad chapter in human history! Shirer'• story shows how the big Hitler - lies worked, how he succeeded in enlisting the .Ludendorffs and others, how his "half-baked ideas" fell on ready ears and his. "Mein Kampf," in which he incorporated the prejudices he acquired "during his vagabond days in Vienna,", "became one of the most influential books of a demented age, and eventually it outsold all other books in Germany except the Bible." Shirer writes that by 1933 the royalties from "Mein Kampf" "had made Adolf Hitler a millionaire." , Hitler is frequently referred to as • the former Viennese tramp. He thrived on Germany's economic ills in the _1920s and early 1930s and the demigod soon became the god. The tramp who suffered hunger in Vienna soon mastered , over the generals, and when the generals several times 'sought to" dispose of him, they were subdued. FirSt it was Chamberlain, whose readiness to deal with Hitler gave the Nazi leader - status;' then came the pact with Stalin, and in every instance Hitler tricked and betrayed the men he dealt with.- The generals who saw the fallacies of waging a senseless war were helpless. Hitler became the absolute master of the army. Generals who pleaded with him not to undertake some of his moves, not to risk the lives of his soldiers, were sidetracked or s eliminated. But the real sufferers were the Jews. Shirer quotes from an interrogatiori of one • of 'the "S. S. thugs," Otto Ohlendorf, LONDON—A fantastic plot of Nazi sympathizers to kidnap Israel Ambassad or. Arthur Lourie and hold him as hostage for "Adolf Eichmann was de- scribed Tuesday by four Lon- don daily newspapers. Both Scotland Yard and the Israel Embassy said they had no 'knowledge of the purported plot. The news papers as-; serted that special branch detectives were tipped off to the al- leged plot by three right wing extrem- ists who were invited to take part in the plan and considered it insane. Lourie - According to . the report, the kidnapping was planned several months ago in a LOndon flat by a group of British facists who reportedly planed to create small groups of strong-arm men throughout Britain for anti - Semitic and anti-Negro activities. The envoy was to have been seized as he was leaving the Embassy for an official func- tion. The detectives were told by the three who -refused to take part in the plan that at- tempts had been made to re- cruit them into a 12-man team of commandoes to carry out the plot, according to the re- ports. , One of the' three was quoted as telling the detectives that "we were let into the prelim- inaries of the plot at the first of a series of parties to which we were invited last October. A man who descrifked himself as "Director General" was in charge. He was wearing a green Nazi - style uniform and the ' walls of the room were dec- orated with swastikas." He said the "Director General" told them that prospective recruits would have to prove their "re- liability" by defiling a syna- gogue. The informant also was quoted as saying that a number of pro-Nazi Germans and pro- fascist. Hungarians living in London attended the meetings. According to the account, Lourie was to have been taken to a remote marsh on the Welsh border and held there as hostage for Eichmann's re- lease. The Daily Mail said the "Director General" was an extremist who met Eichmann in 195 9 when the former Gestapo colonel left his Argentine hide- out to visit Linz, Austria, where his brother -and- family live. • Itzhak Unna, the press at- tache at the Israel -Embassy, said that Lourie was "highly amused" by the report. . , Fisher and Zivian, Sign for. Local $3,000,000 USA Debt Liqui,cicition Reuther Testimonial Committee Enlarged Thirty-two more names of Prominent leaders have been added tothe roster of the Mich- igan host committee, which is planning the "Labor Man of the Decade" testimonial dinner to Walter P. Reuther, June 21, at the Masonic Temple. The new members are: . Judge Victor J. Baum, Judge Theo- dore R. Bohm, Judge George E. Bowles, Irving Br o n s o n, David Chaney, Harold C. Crotty, Edward H. Cushman vice president, American Motors; ' Paul Dimeny, Dr. Norinan "Drachler, Dr. Robert H. Rrehse, head of the Round Table of Catholics,- Jews and Prbtestants; • Judge Horace W. Gilmore, Lawrence Gubow, U.S. dis-. trict attorney; William Hordes, Anton Jakobs, international representative of the-Meat Cutters and Butchers Uriion; Leonard Kasle, member Detroit Board of Education; Probate Judge Ira G. Kaufman, Morris Lieberman, Bernard Linderman, Norman Mackay, Judge Wade McCree, Stanley J. Michaels, Irving Pokempner, Dr. Remus Robin- son, member of the board of educa- tion, Morris L. Schaver, • Harry Sebu- m-0'Y Shevitz, A. Z. Zwerd- 'lint, "Philip StolIman, Les O'Bryant, Alvin H. Ruthenberg, Prof. Robert Haughton, Dr. Shmarya Klein- man and Dr. Leonard S. Rosenfeld. Max M. Fisher, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation (left) and Max Zivian, president of the United Jewish Char- ities, are shown here signing the agreement for Petroit's participation in the $65,000,000 national. United Jewish Appeal debt liquidation program. The' Detroit Jewish community is participating in the debt liquidation to the extent of $3,000,000, loaned by the National Bank.