Nazi Documents Reveal Shocking Conditions During the Hitler Era
Experimental Text
on Holocaust to Be
Tried in Pilot Schools
NEW YORK—The publication of
the first experimental text on the
teaching' of the holocaust era was
announced by Dr. Judah Pilch, di-
rector of the National Curriculum
Research Institute.
Noting that there has been little,
if any, instruction on this most
significant experience in Jewish
history, Dr. Pilch said, "This vol-
ume is the first step in helping to
fill an inexcusable void in the cur-
riculum of Jewish education in
almost all schools under Jewish
auspices. It should also prove of
considerable interest to all other
American school systems."
The book has been prepared by
a group of educators for use in
secondary schools and on the
young adult level. It will be avail-
able during 1967 for use in 10
pilot Jewish schools in all parts
of the country.
In addition, a special "Guide to
Teachers" is now in preparation
and will be made available to the
pilot schools for criticism. The
text will undergo final revision
prior to its publication in printed
form. -
In Part One, the text deals with
the general economic and political
conditions which prevailed in Eu-
rope before World War I and be-
tween the two world wars prior to,
and during, the rise of the Nazis.
In Part Two, the Nazi attitude
toward the Jewish people is exam-
ined by Dr. Alexander S. Kohanski
and Professor Meir Ben-Horin; Dr.
Pilch details the factual story of
the holocaust from the time of the
Nazi party through the
rise -
Eichmann trial in Israel and the
Auschwitz trial in Germany.
Following this, the editor ad-
dresses himself to the perplexing
question of why the world was a
silent witness to these events.
Prof. Irving Halperin, in Part IV,
"The Holocaust in Literature," of-
fers examples from the writings of
survivors, and historic reflections.
The final portion of the book,
prepared by Abraham H. Foxman,
presents examples of resistance.
The publication of this experi-
mental edition was made possible
by a grant from the Memorial
Foundati )n for Jewish Culture
which subsidized one-third of the
cost of research and initial publi-
cation.
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will rank hereafter as a precedent.
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How are the unknowing to un-
derstand what had happened in
Nazi Germany unless they are pre-
sented with the actual published
statements elaborating on the
views of the adherents to the Hitler
ideology?
Tragically, many of the ideas
have to be explained. The back-
ground of utterances must be un-
derstood. The intentions have to be
made known. The aim must be un-
derstood. Everything that was done
in Germany had led to the exter-
mination of millions of people, and
that has to be known.
"Nazi Culture" is a volume con-
taining the horrifying declarations
of the Nazis. The volume was ed-
ited by Prof. George L. Mosse of
the University of Wisconsin and
was published by Grosset and Dun-
lap (51 Madison, NY10). There are
documents and a variety of records
of the Nazi period, in translations
by Salvator Attanasio and others.
They should be read simultaneous-
ly with the explanatory text in Dr.
Mosse's introduction which ex-
plains the effects of the Hitler pro-
paganda which has misled the
German people and led it to the
path of barbarism.
morality. A revolution of the
spirit is for many men more
tempting than one which brings
about social or economic changes
and which might lead to chaos
instead of cementing order.
Nazism exemplifies the dangers
which lurk behind this facade of
conservation, a modern conserva-
tism which is vulnerable to ex-
treme views even if it rejects
them. It is unfashionable to
speak of the lessons of history,
but perhaps there is a lesson for
the present hidden among these
documents of the past."
Philosophic evaluation and rea-
soning helps, but in the instance of
the documents in this volume there
is need to be on guard lest they
mislead, lest they are read literally
and a generation that know not
what had happened may believe
them to be truths and moralities.
That is why, valuable as they are,
they must be offered to the ration-
al and not to the weak-minded.
Nevertheless this volume must
be accepted as an important adden-
dum to the documentary evidence
•
on the holocaust: they provide the
facts that should be known for a
complete understanding of the bar-
barities that were enacted only a
generation ago.
* a *
3 Groups in Belgium Urge
Bonn Fight Neo-Nazism
titularly to the Bonn government
and the German people "to com-
bat by all means, including ex-
isting legal provisions, the re-
vival of the Nazi Party."
An extraordinary session of the
National Federation of War Vet-
erans and the Armed Jewish
Resistance of Belgium took
similar action. The resolution not
only warned against neo-Nazism
in Germany but also charged that
"no measures" have been taken by
Germany to prevent the revival of
Nazism.
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Three THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Belgian organizations comprised of
Friday, December 23, 1966-13
various anti-Nazi, resistance and
war veterans' groups denounced
sharply here the resurgence of neo-
Nazism in West Germany, and
called on the Bonn government to
outlaw the right-wing National
Democratic Party which has recent-
ly won large votes in the state
parliamentary elections of the
Poles Honored for Helping provinces of Hesse and Bavaria.
The Belgian Committee Against
Jews During Nazi Era
Statutes of Limitations for Nazi
LONDON (JTA) — A group of Crimes, comprised of 22 non-Jew-
former Polish resistance fighters, ish and Jewish organizations,
who risked their own lives during adopted a resolution urging Bonn
the Nazi occupation to help Jews, to take "appropriate steps" to ban
has been honored by the Yad the NDP, to assure Germany and
Dr. Mosse shows how the ideas Vashem, the Israeli center for the
of Nietzsche were utilized for documentation of the Nazi hola- the rest of the world that former
Nazi propaganda, how the pub- caust, it was reported here from Nazis will be excluded from all
administrative posts and to make
HANK NEWMAN
lic meeting was resorted to in Warsaw.
sure that no statutes limitations
President
pressuring the people into Nazi
An Israeli Embassy official in
ranks, how historical connections the Polish capital said that more are permitted for the apprehension
and
prosecution
of
persons
accused
were exploited. " 'Nazi science,: than 70 per cent of the 170 awards
of war crimes.
came back to haunt the party,"
by Yad Vashem were given
The Comite d'Action de la
the editor of this volume states. t o
Resistance disseminated a res-
He shows how Nazism became a
olution to be presented to the
religion and "Goebbels quite con-
meeting, urging that "everybody
sciously used a religious termi- German Bank Forms
must remain vigilant" against
nology in many of his speeches."
•
resurgent neo-Nazism in West
An introduction by Dr. Mosse to
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BONN (JTA) — Koor, a corn- , Germany. The draft appeals par-
each section of the book helps to
pany owned by the Histadrut, Is-
understand the vicious propaganda
rael's labor federation, and the 1,
inherent in the documents, in
German Trade Union Bank for Co-
speeches by Nazi leaders, in educa-
operatives, have formed a joint
tional theses, in women's roles in Industrial Services Co. to obtain
the Nazi regime and the various markets for Israel-made goods
other sources of documentary evi- abroad, the German publication
dence of the Nazi criminal ideas. Deutschlandberichten reported
There • are the declarations used
Tuesday.
to attract the youth. There are ex-
The partners each hold 50 per
cerpts from diaries. The evidence
cent • of the shares in the new
is overwhelming.
joint enterprise. The initial capital
"Hitler's world has gone for- was reported to be 2,000,000 marks
ever. But many of the basic atti- ($500;000).
tudes and prejudices which went
into his world view are still with
us, waiting to be actualized, to be Synagogue Marriages
directed into a new mass consci-
ousness. The documents may Dropping in British Isles
LONDON (JTA) — Synagogue
seem to the reader, 30 years
later, to be so outrageous as to marriages in England, Scotland
verge on the comical. Yet we and Wales have dropped from
must remember that at one point 2,876 a year in the period 1941-
in history a regime did take 1950 to 1,816 annually for the
these ideas seriously and so did period 1961-1965, representing a
millions who lived under it. decline of 37 per cent over the
Nazism was overthrown by a for- 20-year period, it was reported
eign war, not by internal revolu- Monday at the monthly meeting
tion, and a larger resistance to of the Board of Deputies of Brit-
Nazism grew up only as the war ish Jews.
The figures are the results of a
was being lost. This is partly ex-
plained by Hitler's successes: survey of synagogue marriages
undertaken
by the statistical and
both in foreign policy and inter-
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A top official of the West Ger-
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