20 Friday, September 3, 1982 German Anti-Semitism Traced in Nicola]. Biography MAGICIAN Exciting entertainment for your organization, dub or private party THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS . Stage Shows Close up magic Audience Participation Mel Eisenberg 547-2464 MENTA ST MI NB MN 1111-1111-11111 IN Georg Friedrich Nicolai (1874-1964) was a famous German scientist and con- stant critic of the German government. He fled the country after denouncing German involvement in World War I and launched a second career in South America. His colleagues in- cluded Albert Einstein and Ivan Pavlov. The German edition of his biography was named one of the 10 best non-fiction books published in the country last year. An English-language edition, "The Nicolai Case," by Wolf Zuelzer, has been published by Wayne State University Press.The immense Nicolai volume traces the anti- Semitic trends in Germany. 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A very important psychological viewpoint, pointing to Nicolai's pro- posal on the treatment to be accorded Hitler, is con- tained in this excerpt from "The Nicolai Case": "The Second World War ran its course, avidly fol- lowed by Nicolai. Once the United States entered it, his apprehensions diminished, for he believed that now, like the previous one, this would be a war of resources. He again pondered the question of what was to be done with the Germans after their defeat. It was imperative that the Nazi mentality be studied if a re- currence of the Hitlerian madness was to be averted. Fascism, he had declared in 1939, was one of the most interesting phenomena of modern times. It repre- sented the resurgence of animal instincts and fetish- ist, totemistic, and other atavistic attitudes in an industrial society. It was most regrettable that the Fascist states had not allowed scientists to study the beast in its natural habitat. "Now, with victory in sight, the opportunity was at hand. The prime object would be Hitler himself, if taken alive. Nicolai wrote a letter to Winston Churchill to suggest Hitler's examina- tion and 're-education' by trained psychologists and other experts 'whose political understanding is far better than mine.' The Moscow 'show trials' of 1936 had shown the ef- - fectiveness of such man- ipulations, he added. "Clearly, what Nicolai Holocaust Guide ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies has published an audio-visual resource guide listing 130 films, vid- eotapes, slide sets, records. To obtain the guide, write the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies, 10957 Schuetz Rd., St. Louis, Mo. 63141. As history and biography it is one of the most signific- antly researched works of the post-war era. had in mind was what would later be called `brain-washing.' 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