Crossposted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2379065

(Mirror.)

The attitude of the Zionists towards the encroaching menace of fascist domination in Germany was determined by some common ideological assumptions: the fascists as well as the Zionists believed in unscientific racial theories, and both met on the same ground in their beliefs in such mystical generalizations as “national character[”] (Volkstum) and “race”, both were chauvinistic and inclined towards “racial exclusiveness.”

Thus the Zionist official Gerhart Holdheim wrote in 1930 in an edition of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte, dedicated to the Jewish question (a publication in which, amongst others, leading anti‐Semites aired their views): “The Zionist programme encompasses the conception of a homogeneous, indivisible Jewry on a national basis. The criterion for Jewry is hence not a confession of religion, but the all‐embracing sense of belonging to a racial community that is bound together by ties of blood and history and which is determined to keep its national individuality.”¹⁰

That was the same language, the same phraseology, as the fascists used. No wonder then that the German fascists welcomed the conceptions of the Zionists, with Alfred Rosenberg, the chief ideologue of the [NSDAP], writing: “Zionism must be vigorously supported so that a certain number of German Jews is transported annually to Palestine or at least made to leave the country.”¹¹ With an eye on such statements, Hans Lamm later wrote: “..it is indisputable that during the first stages of their Jewish policy, the [Fascists] thought it proper to adopt a pro‐Zionist attitude.”¹²

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The fascists rewarded the Zionists for their “restraint” and allowed the ZVFD to go on with its work unhindered. (This was at a time when all democratic and anti‐fascist parties and organizations in Germany were subject to the most rigorous persecution, with their officials and members behind bars in prisons and concentration camps.) At the same time, the fascists placed all kinds of obstacles in the path of the non‐Zionist organizations.

These hindrances struck at the CV above all, for prior to 1933, the fascists had already seen the CV as “their chief Jewish opponents,” as is indicated by numerous examples from the [Fascist] press.²⁴ The CV had always charged the Zionists with showing little interest in the “struggle [against fascism] ... and that [Zionism] followed a policy of indifference [in the face of the encroaching fascist danger] because it did not feel itself involved.”²⁵

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After 1933, the [Third Reich] permitted the Zionists to continue with their propaganda. While all the newspapers in Germany were placed directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Propaganda (the newspapers published by the Communists or the Social Democratic Party or the trade unions and other progressive organizations were banned) the Zionist Jüdische Rundschau was allowed to appear unhindered.

Winfried Martini, the then correspondent in Jerusalem of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung who, according to his own testimony, had “close personal ties with Zionism” remarked later on the “paradoxical fact” that “of all papers, it was the Jewish [i.e., Zionist] press that for years retained a certain degree of freedom which was completely withheld from the non‐Jewish press.”²⁸ He added that in the Jüdische Rundschau there was very frequently to be found a critical view of the [Fascists] without this in any way leading to the banning of the paper.

Only with the end of the year 1933 onwards did it lead to a ban on selling this paper to non‐Jews. The Jews should, according to the wish of the fascists, be converted to Zionism, even if this were done with arguments directed against the fascists. In this fashion, the circulation of this Zionist paper, which had until then been srnall,²⁹ underwent a rapid swing upwards.

(Emphasis added.)

It is difficult for me to put together this excerpt, because almost everything in this paper is as eye‐opening as it is horrific, so I am going to go so far as to say that this is a must‐read for any serious anti‐Zionist.

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Events that happened today (October 15):

1872: Wilhelm Miklas, Austrofascist, was born.
1893: Carol II of Romania, monarchofascist, blighted the earth.
1913: Wolfgang Lüth, Axis U‐boat captain, was brought into the world.
1935: Axum fell to the Fascists, and the Naval Gazette revealed that the Third Reich’s navy had already launched twenty‐one U‐boats.
1936: The Battle of Sigüenza ended in a fascist victory, Imperial Japan founded the city of Toyonaka, Osaka, and the Third Reich officially prohibited Jewish teachers from public schools.
1940: The Spanish fascists executed President Lluís Companys of Catalonia.
1944: The Third Reich replaced the Hungarian government because the last one announced an armistice with the Soviet Union.
1946: Hermann Göring, Axis politician and war criminal, ingested cyanide… no comment.
1959: Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian fascist, bit the bullet.