'38 Friday, April 2, 1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ENJOY THIS PASSOVER WITH THE FINEST KOSHER L'PESACH PRODUCTS wilno taczezuttg kosbea i=ciA Under Strict Rabbinical Supervision U.S. Gov't Inspected WILNO KOSHERGE SALAMI • BOLOGNA - • CORNED BEEF • FRANKFURTERS SALAMI NERAL 60609 • OE Ss: . ILLINOIS FRANKFURTERS • CORNED BEEF . BOLOGNA LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR: 14558 Wyoming Detroit 48238 Tel: 931-0300 DAILY DONUTS 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- ALWAYS OPEN * SPRING SPECIAL Regular GET 6 FREE!!! Buy 1 DOZEN 26051 W. 12 Mile only 100/ pure vegetable shortening (Across from Ram's Horn) 6 45' ready been issued. Mass kil- lings had been going on for 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 Coca-Cola Bottlers of Detroit, Inc. are proud to announce ... KOSHER AND FOR PASSOVER 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. +' • 4 er 4.. r < • —