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By BRUCE KRIEGEL
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Charge London Privafe
Schools Discriminate
Dr. Joachim Prinz Warns o Systematic
Campaign to 'Rewrite Germany's
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president
of the American Jewish Con-
gress, charged this week that in-
fluential groups in Germany and
the United States have launched
a "systematic campaign to re-
write German history."
He said the purpose of the ef-
fort was to make it appear that
Hitlerism was an aberration with-
out roots in the German past."
Dr. Prinz, a former rabbi of
Berlin who was expelled from
Nazi Germany in 1937 reported
on a survey of social and politi-
cal conditions he completed last
month in West Germany. He
spoke at a meeting of the Com-
mission on International Affairs
of the American Jewish Congress
in Stephen Wise Congress House,
New York.
tion political parties, do exist in the invisible Jew and then di-
Germany. But only the outward rected, as it were, against the
forms of the democratic process innocent Jewish bystander.
are present, and even these were
"Thus, anti-Semitism can re-
imposed by the occupying powers main latent among the German
—the United States, Britain and people even when, as today,
France. The inner commitment Jews make up an infinitesimal
of the German people to the part of the West German pop-
moral principles and ideals of lation — a mere 22,000 indi-
democracy remains absent. De- viduals living among 57,000,000
mocracy in Germany today is Germans."
only skin deep."
Dr. Prinz said it was "tragic
- The annual Holiday Band and
Choir Concert will be presented
for Oak Park alumni and their
parents at the school audito-
rium on Thursday evening. The
The Jewish Congress leader
program will feature numbers
called for "increased vigilance
ranging from 15th century
in rooting out ex-Nazis from
sacred works to modern holiday
positions of trust and au-
classics.
thority in the government ad-
ministration, the military and
The A Cappella Choir will
the judiciary."
sing two Hanukah selections:
In his report, Dr. Prinz com-
"Candlelight" and "Spin My
mented on recent public opinion
Top." Works by Henry Purcell,
polls indicating that 8 per cent
'Aaron Copland and. Irving Ber-
"Some apologists for Ger- of. West Germans admitted they
•lin will also be presented at the
many claim only that Nazism still believed in Hitler while 39
program.
The Photography Club, spon- was an isolated incident in per cent said they were "unde-
sored by Mrs. Sarah Smith, art German history," Dr. Prinz de- cided" about Nazism.
"It is this 39 per cent — a
teacher, is the newest of Oak clared. "They would forget
Park High's extra-curricular ac- the 12 years of the Hitler vast number of Germans — who
tivities. Officers include Alan regime and have us think of must be watched carefully for
Mindlin, president; Jack Nol- Germany only in terms of what signs that they may once again
ish, vice-president, Marty Jaf- has happened since the end of be swayed by the counsels of
fee, secretary; Sheldon Berke, World War II. Accordingly, racial hatred and super-patrio-
treasurer. The club is construct- they attack books like William tism," he declared.
He said there was "no politi-
Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the
ing a print dryer.
The Oak Park Redskins howl- Third Reich' as deliberate at- cally significant" neo-Nazi move-
ing team is preparing for its tempts to discredit Germany. ment in Germany today and little
third season in the South Oak- The new Germany now rising overt anti-Semitism. "But there
land County Bowling League. in Europe cannot develop is no doubt in my mind whatso-
In each of the past two seasons, strong democratic institutions ever," he added, "that latant
the Redskins won the league for tomorrow by denying its anti-Semitism among the Ger-
trophy by finishing in first • own history. And the Ameri- man people remains a powerful
can friends of Germany who force." He continued:
place.
"Anti - Semitism in Germany
.. As a member of the Oakland seek to build a bridge between
"A" league, varsity basketball the two countries do Germany has historically been — and re-
team faces rough competition. a disservice by ignoring the mains — an anti-Semitism' with-
Tonight's game is against Troy Nazi era and the terrible les- out Jews. Because Jews never
High - School (there). On Dec. sons it holds for all of man- constituted more than 1 per cent
of the German population, Ger-
21, Clawson will meet the Red- kind."
Dr. 'Prinz warned against man anti-Semitism has had a
, skins at Oak Park.
"thinking in stereotypes" about kind of mystical quality. It was
the
new Germany. "Just as it never the Jew who lived around
Pivnick Is Elected
is wrong to assert that the peo- the corner who was hated. Rath-
Mayor in Canada
ple of Germany were ignorant er, German anti-Semitism was
TORONTO, (JTA) — Edwin of the excesses of the Hitler compounded out of a hatred of
regime during the Nazi era, so
J. Pivnick, a Toronto attorney
and prominent Jewish communal is it wrong to talk of 'incorri- Landau Receives -
leader, was elected mayor of gible Germans," he declared. He
Nobel Prize in
Forest Hill Village, a suburb of continued:
"It is important to recall that
. this city and Canda's largest
Moscow
Hospital
- village. Pivnick, 38, has served there was a German liberal reVo-
lution
in
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and
a
German
LONDON,
(JTA)—Prof. Lev
on the legal and other commit- liberal government in 1919. It
Davidovich Landau, the world-
tees of the Canadian Jewish
is neither wise nor just to as- famous Russian Jewish scientist,
Congress.
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Soviet Union Finally
`Recognizes' Einstein
that the menace represented
• by Communist East Germany
should have served to divert
attention from the necessity of
strengthening the ideals of
freedom in West Germany.
"Whatever problems of anti-
Semitism and excessive nation-
LONDON, . (JTA) -- Charges
that discrimination against Jew-
ish applicants is being practiced
in a number of private schools
in England, particularly in Lon-
don, were voiced at a public
forum here.
Mrs. Laura Grimond, wife of
the Liberal party leader and a
member of the executive of the
Women's Liberal Federation,
told the forum that the bias was
displayed not against the Jewish
pupils • who did get in but in
the admission policies of the
schools. She said that "in some
cases there is a tacit quota of
10 per cent."
She added that legislation was
not the remedy for such bias.
She suggested that enlighten-
ment and education "in the
widest sense" was the solution.
Martin Savitt, vice-chairman of
the Association of Jewish Vet-
erans, said that Britain was now
a multi-racial society and it was
the duty and privilege of all
citizens to fight racial and re-
ligious hatred and discrimina-
tion which, he added, "usually
starts with Jews and the next
victims are the churches and
trade unions and finally the
whole f a b r i c of democratic
society."
alism confront West Germany,"
he said, "it must be recognized
that they exist in greater degree
and with greater urgency in
East Germany. There the Com-
munist regime has adopted none
of the positive steps taken by
the Bonn government. East Ger-
many has not only accepted but
sought out the services of former
Nazis whenever this course
seemed to promise greater op-
erating efficiency. Unlike the
West German Republic, Commu-
nist East Germany has rejected
Her husband is from a hum-
in summary and callous fashion
the request that it make mate- ble family, yet all she demands
rial amends to the victims of of him is her bit of food. Kethu-
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