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Zbaszyn 1938 Jewish Expellees Facts Bryant

Unfinished Victory, by Arthur Bryant. 1940

A Non-Nazi View of Jews in Weimar and Early Nazi Germany. Clarity on 1938 Zbaszyn (German Jews Expelled to Poland)

The British author wrote this book just before the Second World War broke out. For this reason, it provides a unique perspective- one that is not colored by the later events of WWII and the Holocaust.

Author Arthur Bryant is quite sympathetic to Jews. He expresses great pity for the Jewish refugees that had arrived penniless from Nazi Germany. Alluding to the recently-concluded KRISTALLNACHT (though Bryant does not use this term), he condemns the revolting destruction of Jewish shops and synagogues, and the violence that had been conducted against innocent Jews. (p. xxix). He stresses the fact that multitudes of German Jews, who are upstanding German citizens, are suffering because of the actions of a few Jews. (p. 140, pp. 149-150).

The following, except CAPS and items in brackets [], are direct quotes:

THE 1918-1919 ATTEMPTED COMMUNIST TAKEOVER OF GERMANY

The prophet of the Russian Revolution, Karl Marx, himself had been a German Jew. Hugo Haase, who had organized the Sailors Revolt at Kiel; Kurt Eisner, who led the rioting at Munich and got himself nominated President of Bavaria; Ernst Toller, Levien, Axelrod and Levine-Nissen, who succeeded him; and Rosa Luxemburg, who with Karl Liebknecht, founded the Spartacist League and controlled the Revolution in Berlin, were all Jews. (pp. 106-107).

WEALTH-TRANSFER IMPLICATIONS OF INFLATION

” Lenin” , he [Maynard Keynes] wrote, “is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continued process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.” (p. 138).

ALLEGED MASSIVE JEWISH PROFITEERING FROM GERMAN HYPERINFLATION

It was the Jews with their international affiliations and their hereditary flair for finance who were best able to seize such opportunities… By purchasing the movable assets of his neighbors for a song during the universal want of Inflation and re-selling abroad for foreign currency, he was able, before the DEBACLE ended, to buy up enough real property in Germany to make him a rich man& They [Jews] did so with such effort that, even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to THE TIMES Correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of real property in the Reich. Most of it came into their hands during the inflation. (pp. 136-137).

& Adolf Hitler: ” The last national property of the whole people is thus passing lightly into the hands of the Jews who are drawing all things to themselves. Millions of existences which were supported on the thrift of a generation are being tricked of everything by this swindle.” (p. 138).

THE MAGNITUDE OF JEWISH PRE-EMINENCE IN, OR DOMINATION OF, WEIMAR GERMANY

Though there were little more than half a million of them living in the midst of a people of sixty-two millions- less, that is, than one percent of the population- their control of the national wealth and power soon lost all relation to their numbers. In the 1924 Reichstag nearly a quarter of the Social Democratic representatives were Jews& In business, according to figures published in 1931 by a Jewish statistician, they [Jews] controlled 57 percent of the metal trade, 22 percent of the grain and 39 percent of the textile. Of 98 members of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 50, or more than half, were Jewish, and of the 1474 of the Stock Exchange in 1930 no less than 1200. Twelve out of sixteen of the Committee of the Berlin Commodity Exchange were Jews and ten out of twelve of the Metal Exchange. (p. 139).

In 1931, of 29 theatres in Berlin 23 had Jewish directors. The largest newspaper combine in the country with a daily circulation of four millions was a Jewish monopoly& In the artistic and learned professions the Jewish supremacy was as marked& For many years the professional organization of German writers were controlled almost entirely by Jews. In 1931, of 144 film scripts worked, 119 were written by Jews and 77 produced by them. Medicine and Law followed the same trend: 42 percent of the Berlin doctors in 1932 were Jews, and 48 Percent of the lawyers. So in Berlin University-by far the largest in the country- were 15 out of 44 of the teachers of Law, and 118 out of 265 of the teachers of Medicine. Every year it became harder for a Gentile to gain or keep a foothold in any privileged occupation. (pp. 140-141).

GERMANS DISPLACED BY JEWS IN WEIMAR GERMANY!

At this time it was not the Aryans who exercised racial discrimination. It was a discrimination which operated without violence. It was one exercised by a minority against a majority. There was no persecution, only elimination. “It seems”, Montz Goldstein, the Jewish essayist, had written before the war, “as if German cultural life was to be completely transformed into Jewish hands…” By the third decade of the century the process had reached a new stage. It was the native Germans who were now confronted with a problem–that of rescuing their indigenous culture from an alien hand and restoring it to their own race. (p. 141).

JEWS AS NOT THE CAUSE, BUT THE PROFITEERS, OF THE ABJECT DECADENCE OF BERLIN

The moral degradation of the German capital in those years had to be seen to be believed…Hundreds of cabarets, pleasure resorts and the like served for purposes of getting acquainted and acquiring the proper mood. Most of them were owned and managed by Jews. (p. 145).

THE FUNDAMENTAL INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN JEWISH AND TEUTONIC WAYS

The Jews cannot be blamed because they did not understand the feelings of the German people or satisfy their cultural needs& Men speak different spiritual languages& [Of Jews] There is a pathos in it and the wanderer’ s yearning and the outcast’ s bitter complaint; there is the oriental and passionate enjoyment of the sensuous delight of the hour; there is the intellectual aloofness of the exile, the pride of the rebel and iconoclast, and contempt for authority and the household gods of the more pampered races. A Jew responds instinctively to those who can express these things in art or literature or music. A German peasant or burgher does not. His spiritual antecedents are different. (pp. 141-142).

CLUES TO 1938 BENTSCHEN/ZBASZYN (THE NAZI-GERMAN EXPULSION OF ONCE-POLISH JEWS AND THE POLISH RELUCTANCE TO “TAKE THEM BACK”)

Of the 200,000 or more Jews who congregated in the capital, a quarter were aliens who had not yet acquired German nationality. Many of them had poured into the country during the post-war [WWI] upheaval from the ghettoes and slums of Eastern Europe& They could not be expected to see things from a German [or Polish] viewpoint. (p. 143).

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Clearly, the ” Polish” Jews expelled by Germany in 1938 had had long ago abandoned Poland of their own free will, and had nothing to do with Poland for some 20 years now. They were not Polish in any sensible sense of the word, and it is totally wrong to blame Poland for “refusing to take back her Jews” as is said in some Holocaust materials.

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