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Seeds of Holocaust Spawn in Tree' World
By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
National Institute
on the Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA -- Re-
cently a flood of articles, in
scholarly journals and in
the newspapers, dealt with
the Wannsee Conference of
January 1942. The
Wannsee Conference was a
meeting of representatives
from many departments
and agencies of the Nazi
Third Reich, and a detailed
report exists which has now
been published.
There was no discussion
whatever of whether the
Jews trapped in the Nazi
Empire should be de-
stroyed. That order had al-
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many weeks. The discussion
centered on a limited ques-
tion: what the many
bureaucracies, properly
coordinated, could do to
facilitate the efficiency of
the killing.
But the Holocaust did
not begin with the
Wannsee Conference. It
began with the corrup-
tion of social structures
during the Weimar Re-
public, with the penetra-
tion of churches, civil
service, military and
police forces, schools and
universities by persons
unfit to serve and dis-
loyal to their vocations
and professions.
It began with the failure
of discipline and integrity in
the medical societies, the
bar associations, the profes-
sors' groups, the civil serv-
ice, the churches. An
ideological fifth column, as
dangerous to the Weimar
Republic as the Fascist and
Communist fifth columns
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that undermined the
Spanish Republic a few
years alater, was allowed to
infiltrate and captUre
strategic posts and power
centers. Weakened and bet-
rayed from within, the
ill-fated Weimar Republic
then fell into the hands of
the most unscrupulous de-
magogues and their most
brutal street-fighters.
There are fundamental
lessons here for republics
today. One of the most fun-
damental is this: permissive
policies 'toward terrorist
movements and potentially
genocidal power groups can
no longer be tolerated.
Those who apologize for and
defend such terrorist,
movements are the grave-
diggers of the republic.
In the chaos which was
Europe after World War I
we may perhaps under-
stand, if not condone, the
failure of sub-political
structures and groups to
maintain their integrity.
They were functioning in a
jungle of wars, civil wars,
totalitarian coups, inflation
and revolution. There is no
such excuse for lack of pro-
fessional integrity and
discipline today.
All this may sound
highly theoretical. But
the implications are very
practical: How shall we
understand an American
Civil Liberties Union
which defends the
"right" of disloyal KKK
Members and Nazis and
Communists to jobs in
government and in pri-
vate institutions?
How shall we understand
a Northwestern University
,and a University of Califor-
nia at San Diego which keep,
as members of their facul-
ties professors who h'ave
prospered mightily by
peddling lies about the
Holocaust?
It is true, of course, that,
the ACLU and other 19th
Century legal fundamen-
talists have made it very
difficult for colleges and
universities to maintain
their internal discipline and
integrity. It is also true, but
this is an aside, that there
are now dozens of bills be-
fore legislatures and dozens
of legal actions brought in
the courts to enable gov-
ernmental agencies to in-
vade and supervise church
structures and doctrines.
But the battle for educa-
tional uprightness, as well
as the battle for religious
liberty, must go on. Gov-
ernments are not coopted ,
for genocidal programs if an
alert and organized
citizenry block the progress
of the terrorists while they
are still weak, and call to
account institutions an
government bureaucrat,
who assist or imitate their
assent to power.
Family Planning
Scene • of Novel
A poignant look behind
the scenes at a family plan-
ning center is the basis for
the novel "At the Center"
(Houghton Mifflin) by
Norma Rosen.
The novel is structured
around Hannah Selig, who
works at the Bianky Family
Planning Center and is the
catalyst in a series of in-
creasingly extraordinary
events.
Mrs. Rosen has written
several novels and short
stories and is the recipient
of a creative writing fellow-
ship from the Radcliffe In-
stitute.
Leeds University
Retains Hebrew
LONDON — The degree
program in Hebrew at
Leeds University will be
changed to a subsidiary
course following a vote by
the university's senate.
The change was voted in
following recommendations
made by a special planning
committee. The committee,
formed last December when
the school-announced it was
considering the elimination
of all Hebrew courses due to
poor enrollment, suggested
that the $120,000 Mon-
tague. Burton Fund be used
to support Hebrew studies.
Tell Your Son on That Day
By CHARLES LUKACS
"Tell your son on that day"
The story of freedom and liberation
from servitude and slave bonds
as it has been told for generation
written on old parchment scrolls
etched in the scattered bones
of your ancestors.
Look for these specially marked
bottle caps at your favorite store.
Tell your son, The joy of salvation
from the tyrants yoke,
as it was decreed with jubilation
by the Judean king, Hezekiah,
. . . and whispered with hope,
on the dark strawbeds
of Maidanek and Treblinka.
Tell your son! How many times
broke your Lord —
the chains from your hand,
to set you free;
And His command
To bend no knee!
to serve other gods nor man.
Tell him that night
by the pale candlelight,
When you raise
your cup of wine.
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