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Hans Axel Holm, drama critic of
the Scandinavian Dagens Nyheter,
went to the small Mecklenburg
town of Neustadt-Glewe to inter-
view East Germans. His report
from the Communist German De-
mocratic Republic is revealing.
Published by Pantheon Books
under the title "The Other Ger-
mans—Report from an East Ger-
man Town," translated from the
Swedish by Thomas Teal, Holm's
revelations indicate the extent of
anti-Semitism still rampant and
throws light on the brutual past
under the Germans.
An example: Ernest Thiele re-
called his youth. He told of Jews
who were marched with placards
around their necks reading: "I'm
a Jewish swine?' Half-Jews also
were thus humiliated. People stood
around and didn't do anything.
"Some of them spat at the Jews.
There were stores here that had
notices in the windows that Jewish
customers were not wanted. That's
the way it was in those days."
Maja Olner described Ravens-
bruck as worse than Auschwitz.
She had experienced both. She de-
scribed some Jews there as "holy
as Hitler himself' because they
still were patriots, "even in the
camp." She went through many
agonies and when she returned to
her Polish home tow n of Dosnowiez
she was called a damned Jewess
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Revelation of Nazi Spirit, Anti-Israel
East German Attitude Exposed by Holm
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by a Russian who said, "It's too
bad Hitler didn't kill all the Jews."
But Jewish organizations were
there to provide the survivors with
soup and bread.
The surviving Olners went to
Neustadt to search for graves of
members of the family. Mark (li-
ner commented: "We went back to
Poland to look for family graves.
We were in a Jewish cemetry, but
it had been destroyed—the stones
had been taken away and used for
paving stones*. . ."
A nurse, Elfriede Koestlin, spoke
contemptuously of Jews.
There is special current interest
in Ernst Thiele's report on his ex-
periences in a POW camp in Egypt.
He was born in Neustadt-Glewe
and when he was told that in near-
by Woebbelin a concentration
camp was established—only three
miles from his native city — he
would not believe it. It was while
a prisoner in Egypt that he learned
of the Nazi mass murders.
In his comments, Thiele said that
many Nazis remained in Egypt and
then he said:
"When the Egyptians first got
us, they called us swine and
murderers. When I was re-
leased, on Sept. 13, 1941, the
mood was different. They bowed
to us and called us •Sir' and
`Honored German Officers.'
"Obviously, today, the GDR
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Temple Emanuel will hold its
A reception on behalf of the Jew-
second annual Ecumenical Inter= ish Theological. Seminary of Amer-
faith Service 8:15 p.m. Feb. 26 at ica is being planned by Ahavas
the First Methodist Church.
Israel leaders, for 8 p.m. March
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11 at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ahavas Israel's United Syna- Reuben Turner, 2055 San Lue Rae.
gogue Youth Group will hold a Lester Berman is chairman of the
Quad-City Kinus today through seminary committee. The commit-
Sunday at the synagogue. Keynote tee includes Turner, Hyman Berk-
speaker will be Sam Waxel of owitz, Harold Heller, Ben Kleiman,
Columbus. Study groups will be Philip Rotenberg and Rabbi Joel
led by Wesel, Abe Drasin, Paul Chazin.
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Richard Lobenthal, regional di-
Ahavas Israel Sisterhood's study rector of the A n t i-Defamation
group will meet 1 p.m. Tuesday League of Bnai Brith, will be guest
in the meeting room. Mrs. Izidor speaker 8:15 p.m. March 5 at
Ahavas Israel's Sabbath service.
Bass will be the hostess.
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A- concert of recorded Hasidic
"A Night in Las Vegas" will be
held 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27 at Cong. music and a film, "A Hasidic
Tale," will be presented 8 p.m.
Sunday at Ahavas Israel. Both the
Neighboring Kibutzim
junior and regular choir will par-
Oppose Gaza Settlement; ticipate at services March 19 as
another event marking Jewish
Knesset Clash Sparked
JERUSALEM (Z I N S) — Two Music Month.
kibutzim of the Marxist left-wing
Mapam party displayed a hostile
attitude toward pioneers founding
a new settlement in the Gaza
Strip, which led to a political
clash in the Knesset. The settlers,
drawn from kibutzim and settle-
ments in the north of Israel, foun-
ded a new community in the
(German Democratic Republic
of East Germany) stands along.
side Egypt in the quarrel with
Israel ... no other coarse is per
But in the same way that
we ourselves have no terribly
honorable history — we're Ger-
mans, after all—we must dearly
understand that Egypt, immedi-
ately after the war, was a haven
for Nazis."
Then there is Hermann Kuhn
for whom defeat is intolerable and
who is quoted in his bitterness and
his boasting about his German au-
periority: "We had the oldest cul-
ture—we were the chosen people.
By virtue of my superior genetic
qualities, I had a duty to survive—
it was my duty to mankind. The
Jews thought they had a duty to
survive, too, but theirs was egois-
tic. They also thought they were a
chosen people, but they thought
they had to survive so that the
Scriptures would be fulfilled, and
for the sake of their own salvation.
and so that gave us certain rights."
About the East German Commu-
nist rulers, there is this from Kurt
Gericke: "There wasn't any upris-
ing against Hitler, and there won't
be any against Ulbricht You learn
to put up with it." Gericke told of
his brother's submitting to work
under the SA. If he didn't he'd be
called a "Jew-lover."
Hermann Kuhn again told of
having befriended a girl who ques-
tioned him about his activities. He
denied criminality, said he was
convicted only for punishing anti-
Fascists. The girl wouldn't let him
touch her any more. The defense
was in typical fashion of self-
exoneration. And the guilt was
apparent.
It is not only the guilt that
emerges here, but also the reality
of a new oppressive spirit in East
Germany. The anti-Israel attitudes,
the defense of Nazism even under
the Communist rule, the anti-Jew-
ish attitude is all there.
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desert near Rafih.
On the day that the new settlers
took possession of the area, they
were met wiht hostility by mem-
bers of the two Mapam kibutzim,
located nearby. Members of Kibutz
Kerem Shalom met the transport
vehicles with signs reading "Down
with Colonization." The second
kibutz, Nir Yitzhak, notified the
new neighbors that their children
would not be welcome in their
kibutz school for "ideological"
reasons.
The two kibutzim, attached to
the extreme left wing of Mapam,
are opposed to the establishthent
of any Jewish settlements in the
Gaza Strip. They see it as an act
of annexation.
In the Knesset, the right-wing
Gahal faction tried to place this
matter on the agenda for debate
and this led to a conflict between
the deputies of Gahal and those
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