The Zionist federation of Germany addresses the new German state
"May we therefore be permitted to present our views, which, in our
opinion, make possible a solution in keeping with the principles of the new
German State of National Awakening and which at the same time might
signify for Jews a new ordering of the conditions of their existence ...
Zionism has no illusions about the difficulty of the Jewish condition, which
consists above all in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of
an intellectual and moral posture not rooted in one’s own tradition ...
... an answer to the Jewish question truly satisfying to the national state
can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish
movement that aims at a social, cultural, and moral renewal of Jewry ... a
rebirth of national life, such as is occurring in German life through
adhesion to Christian and national values, must also take place in the
Jewish national group. For the Jew, too, origin, religion, community of fate
and group consciousness must be of decisive significance in the shaping
of his life ...
On the foundation of the new state, which has established the principle of
race, we wish so to fit our community into the total structure so that for us
too, in the sphere assigned to us, fruitful activity for the Fatherland is
possible ... Our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a
clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and
racial realities. Precisely because we do not wish to falsify these
fundamentals, because we, too, are against mixed marriage and are for
maintaining the purity of the Jewish group ...
... fidelity to their own kind and their own culture gives Jews the inner
strength that prevents insult to the respect for the national sentiments and
the imponderables of German nationality; and rootedness in one’s own
spirituality protects the Jew from becoming the rootless critic of the
national foundations of German essence. The national distancing which
the state desires would thus be brought about easily as the result of an
organic development.
Thus, a self-conscious Jewry here described, in whose name we speak,
can find a place in the structure of the German state, because it is
inwardly unembarrassed, free from the resentment which assimilated Jews
must feel at the determination that they belong to Jewry, to the Jewish
race and past. We believe in the possibility of an honest relationship of
loyalty between a group-conscious Jewry and the German state ...
For its practical aims, Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration
even of a government fundamentally hostile to Jews, because in dealing
with the Jewish question no sentimentalities are involved but a real
problem whose solution interests all peoples, and at the present moment
especially the German people.
The realisation of Zionism could only be hurt by resentment of Jews
abroad against the German development. Boycott propaganda – such
as is currently being carried on against Germany in many ways – is in
essence un-Zionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to
convince and to build ... Our observations, presented herewith, rest on the
conviction that, in solving the Jewish problem according to its own lights,
the German Government will have full understanding for a candid and
clear Jewish posture that harmonizes with the interests of the state.
This document, a treason to the Jews of Germany, was written in standard
Zionist cliches: “abnormal occupational pattern”, “rootless intellectuals
greatly in need of moral regeneration”, etc. In it the German Zionists
offered calculated collaboration between Zionism and Nazism, hallowed
by the goal of a Jewish state: we shall wage no battle against thee, only
against those that would resist thee."
הוספת תגובה על "אני זוכר את (ה)מכתב הבגידה (אנגלית)"
נא להתחבר כדי להגיב.
התחברות או הרשמה