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Der jüdische Ritualmord: Eine historische Untersuchung
von Hellmut Schramm, Ph. D.

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At the beginning of December Crémieux, on his trip
back to Paris, reached Vienna "after an endless triumphal progress," where
he was swamped "with tributes." Price Metternich and all his old
acquaintances received "the defender of offended, abused Humanity. . .with
distinction." The Vienna Jewish community arranged, to thank him, "a
banquet in the hotel fit for a Roman Emperor, the like of which not many
had been seen of equal magnificence." -- "The general enthusiasm extended
also to the Jewish women's circle in the tasteful arrangement of the
celebration, which in particular the Frauen Nanette Edle v.
Wetheimstein, Louise Edle Wertheimstein and Regine
Biedermann had managed. . ." (87) Jew
Manheimer handed over to his Jewish chief an address of gratitude of his
community, written upon parchment and with a golden cover set with
brilliantine," which was also read aloud. The report concerning this
reception contains such numerous typical as well as informative details,
that it should be added to the Appendix in its unabridged text.(88) After
"toasts were proposed with great enthusiasm to the Emperor and the entire
Imperial house and to the Prince State-Chancellor (Metternich), and to the
Consuls of the great powers who rendered assistance in this cause
of Justice and Humanity, and the celebration was inscribed so indissolubly
in the emotions of the Israelite population through many significant
features," Crémieux Triumphator traveled back to Paris on the 9th
of December 1840. In Fürth, appropriately, a magnificent edition of the
book of Esther was presented to him (89) [The
reader's attention is called to the rather pointed contents of that book,
which contains the story of Jewish revenge...in which Haman, along with
his 10 sons, is hanged by Esther and her consort.] In Frankfurt a.M. "Herr
Crémieux also honored our citizens and high-school children with his
presence. . ."

But Sir Moses also entered London again after
long "diplomatic" (124) stay in Constantinople;
Here there occurred for him the honor unattainable for the ordinary
Englishman, of being received personally by the Queen. Paul Nathan
mentions with a sense of pride this detail, which by itself speaks
volumes, in the foreword to his sorry and Talmudic piece of work about
Tisza-Eszlár which appeared in 1892, : ". . .thus it was natural
that Montefiore was given special distinctions, when he returned
home from Egypt after a happily concluded mission in this affair. Queen
Victoria of England received him personally and as a special sign of
her favor in recognition of his position and his success in Alexandria,
bestowed upon him the privilege of bearing supporters to his arms." [In
heraldry, this consists of (usually) human figures which are displayed
outside of the escutcheon proper and signify an enhancement of the
family's distinction.]

Crémieux in Paris again --
Montefiore back in London, the blessing of Yahweh, which the Rabbis
in the synagogues had beseeched, had indeed proven successful! Both had
returned as the uncrowned heads of their people, of whom the Jew
Mendelssohn wrote in an open letter from Paris as an Epilogue to "
this sad drama in Damascus" (90): "Though
dispersed to all points of the globe, in our century also Israel is still
one people! Was it not, as if the poisoned dagger of that
accusation had struck at but one man, but one heart? Did not
those terrible events prove that a magically powerful bond winds itself
about us irrefutably from pole to pole? Like one single voice Israel rose,
from North Germany to free America far across the ocean and defended,
strong in its conscience, the purity of the Mosaic Law."

The Seed Sprouts

So that the Gentile peoples, who of course still existed, did not become
too shocked over this "purity of the Mosaic Law," and since on the other
hand, the huge excitement over the ritual crimes of Damascus in the
whole world of culture despite the "thick veil which had been drawn over
this bloody scene," tended never to entirely die down, Eastern Jews who
had immigrated to America had by 1843 already founded as an organization
for warding off ["defamation", etc.], the Order "B'nai Brith," which
however (125) was soon operating under the
familiar cloak of "purely humanitarian aims": "to foster the ideals of
humanity -- of charity, brotherly love and harmony, and under the
strictest maintenance of the most loyal and patriotic
attitude" pushed Jewish world politics (91) in grand
style and in Jewish modesty, divided the "world to be liberated and
still to be conquered" into 17 districts (92).

In
Germany, too, "District VIII", this giant Jewish organization, which
weighed down upon the world like an octopus, encysted itself under
tolerance of the authorities with numerous lodges; since 1906 there
existed between B'nai Brith and German Free Masonry a
"relationship of friendship." Every year the Order awarded a golden
medal as the highest distinction to men or women who, during the course of
the year, achieved "the most significant deed in the interest of Jewry."
Among those decorated were, for example, the North American President
Taft, who had designated the Jews as the "aristocray of the human race, as
excellent citizens of the State and the best Republicans." Obviously the
present President of the United States, Roosevelt, also received the
highest medal of the Hebrews, presented by a dignified committee!(93)

Now
it is very interesting to note that the Order B'nai Brith until our day
collaborated most closely with the World alliance of the "Alliance
Israélite Universelle" (AIU) founded in 1860 in Paris; the downright
crushing position of power of this giant international Jewish entangler
has shown itself, fitted out with the wealthiest financial means,
especially in the quashing of ritual murder trials, as on the other
hand the total impotence of the state organs of authority, which had to
step all the more timidly, were, moreover, for the most part still
dependent upon Finance-Jews!

Three years after the blood-murders of
Damascus and Rhodes, almost simultaneously ritual-murders of
children were reported in Corfu, once again in Rhodes, (126)and at several other places (94).

From
the more recent times the following crimes occur:

1880: Jews
in Alexandria killed a child of a ship captain from the island of
Cyprus in the father's absence. From the child the blood, unto the
last drops, had been withdrawn by opening the veins. The father was
not allowed to return to Alexandria to bury his child. The Jewish
perpetrators were not prosecuted (95).

1881:
The Jews again slaughtered a child in Alexandria at the beginning of
April, the Greek boy Evangelio Fornarachi. The corpse, found on the
beach near the sea empty of blood, pierced and resembling a
wax statue, was laid out in state for several days by the parents, which
gave rise to a riot against the Jews. Several thousand soldiers out of
Cairo placed the city in a state of siege. Although the crime was obvious,
only "the possibility of murder" was pronounced by an international
commission of the Consuls of France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and
Greece, and the Baruch family, strongly suspected of the murder was
placed on "provisional freedom"! (96)

Edouard
Drumont reports in his work La France juive(97) the
following blood-murders of Gentile children from the Ghetto of
Constantinople:

1882: At Balata a child was
enticed into a Jewish house; more than 20 people saw the child go in. On
the following day the blood-empty body was found in the Golden Horn
area. The result was a riot by the people. A very short time later an
entirely similar case occurred in Galata. Serouios, the most
respected attorney of the Greek community, (127) directed a petition to the representatives of
the Christian powers of Europe, to obtain justice. The Turkish police,
bribed by Jews, allowed the documents to disappear; the ecumenical
Patriarchate declared by means of bribed physicians "on signal from above"
the mother of the stolen and slaughtered child to be "mentally disturbed"
and offered her a "pension" with Jewish money as "compensation" for her
child!

1883: Ritual-murder in Galata. The police
chief in Pera and the police commissioner in Galata were
bribed and hindered the investigation. The paper Stambul which had
energentically acted against the guilty, was silenced with 140,000
francs.

1885: In Mit-Kamer in Egypt a young
Copt was slaughtered on the occasion of the Jewish Easter holiday(98).

1890:
On Easter Monday (!) of this year the boy Henry of the
French family Abdelnour in Damascus became missing as of
nine in the morning. Suspicion fell upon a Jewess, but the mother was
prevented from searching there for her child. Instead, the Turkish
authorities ordered house searches at the mother's and her
neighbors under the pretense that the child had been hidden by relatives
in order to be able to accuse the Jews of child-kidnapping. On the 21st of
April 1890 agents of the authorities appeared with instructions to search
a well in the neighborhood, to see whether the child perhaps had
drowned. Without first visiting the wells of other houses, the
officials immediately headed for a wagon-shed at the entrance of the
Jewish Quarter. Located there was a long unused water-shaft sealed with a
heavy stone. The officials perceived the smell of decay and the
corpse of the child was lifted out of the well. Since boots and clothing
were put on incorrectly, a crime was presumed and an autopsy (128) arranged. The child's body, transported to the
Military Hospital, was examined by twenty military and civilian
physicians. The result reads: The child was thrown into the well, after
the blood had been drawn out of him by the artery of the right hand.
The doctors thereupon amputated the arm at the elbow and were preparing
it. Suddenly a representative of the authorities, a wali (office manager),
demanded the report of the physicians. The civilian doctors were dismissed
by him with the words: "We no longer need your services, go outside and
don't come back in!"

On the following day the military physicians
stated that no blood had been withdrawn from the arm, the child had fallen
into the well and drowned! In the night after this declaration the
child -- without his relatives having been informed -- was literally
buried. Guards were set at his grave, who refused anyone access! The
Gouverneur of Damascus threatened the family of the child with
prison, or immediate exile if they should express their suspicion that the
child was murdered by Jews. Thereupon the relatives turned to the French
government to investigate the case. An open letter of a relative of the
victim was at that time published in the Paris paper Le peuple --
without any success! -- The "case," in the mind of Judah, had been
"liquidated"!(99)

1891:
On the 27th of June of this year in the neighborhood of Mustapha
Pasha the corpse of an eight-year-old girl was pulled from the river,
which according to the statement of the examining physician had lain
perhaps 20 days in the water. (129) The girl
was known as the child of a Christian Greek Orthodox family living in the
city, and the Greek butcher Stephanos stated that the child had
been killed exactly according to the methods of slaughtering
customarily used by the Jews. Two days later, on the 29th of June, the
Christian butcher was also murdered and found on the shore of the river
tied into a sack, and the examination of the corpse yielded the fact that
the butcher had been killed by piercing with a broad slaughtering
knife.

The conducting of the murder trial was delegated to the
Military Gouverneur. Five Jewish slaughterers and four Jewish
religious officials were arrested as suspected of the murder. In order to
"pacify" the population, any assembly of men in the city, which was
occupied in force by the military, was strictly forbidden. A Christian
journeyman of the slaughterer David made a comprehensive
confession. He stated to the protocol, that he had been given the task of
summoning the butcher Stephanos into the house of David, and
that then immediately six Jews fell upon him and stabbed him to the floor.
He then had to take the corpse to the river, after it had been sewn into a
sack, for which he was paid five pounds. Nothing was reported about
further inquiries (100).

1892:
At the time of the Jewish Easter in Port-Said the
85-year-old Jewish prayer-leader Carmona enticed the four-year-old
Greek girl Helene Vasilios into his house, which had also been
observed by several witnesses. Carmona saw himself forced to let
his house be searched by a number of Greeks and by the mother of the
missing child. After a long time a small, dark dungeon was discovered
situated near the neighboring Jewish temple. Since this apparently could
not be opened, the door was knocked in and one saw, after the room had
been illuminated sufficiently, crouching in the corner an old Jewess who
was trying to hide the already critically wounded (130) child whose eyes and mouth were bound. The rage
of the crowd of people knew no limits. The old woman was struck so that
she remained unconscious; the child succumbed two days later to her wounds
which had been inflicted with a jagged instrument. The uprising
among the Greek population was nipped in the bud by the Egyptian and
English military.

Despite this, the Jews of Port-Said
sent off a deputation to Cairo to lodge complaints with the
government over the fact that insufficient protection had been given them
and that the magistrate of the investigation took up for the Greek side,
in that he had released from custody several of the Greeks who had taken
part in the unrest.

1892: On the Sunday evening before
Easter a Jew in the Galata section of Constantinople
attempted to kidnap a Greek youngster from off the street. This had been
observed, however, by other children, who informed their parents. The
child-taker was able to be located. The police took him into custody,
where he was questioned in the presence of the editor of the official
Turkish paper Saadat. By order of the paper's censor, however, no
local paper was allowed to mention this Jewish attempt at
kidnapping.

Several years earlier the son of a type-setter of the
already named paper Stambul had been kidnapped by Jews; the paper
had reported about it and was occupied for the duration of three months by
order of the Turkish authorities and then went back into business under a
Jewish editor.(101)

The
outrage of the Turkish, Mohammedan as well as Christian classes of the
population had climbed to the boiling point as a consequence of these
events, and here and there it came to collisions with Jewish elements who
had provoked them in full consciousness of their unlimited (131) power. The Greek Archbishop of Brussa,
Nathanael by name, gave to his lambs on the 15th of April 1893 a
thorny "pastoral letter" in which it says, among other things(102): ". .
.The nonsensical claim (concerning blood-murder), which is found
spread by maliciousness, has aroused the populace against the Jews, of
whom several have been mistreated" -- not a single Jew had been killed by
it, while in the past century alone dozens, indeed perhaps hundreds of
defenseless victims of the Jews had disappeared without one "pastoral
letter" having taken a position on it! It then says further: ". . .these
violent acts have been repeated in other parts of our diocese. This
barbaric way of behaving has filled us with great hurt and anxiety. .
.nothing is less in keeping with the spirit of our religion than racial
hatred (look at this!) and the blind fanaticism which arouse the
lower passions of the people. Therefore, and because we judge the
claim, that the Jews slaughter Christian children in order to use them for
a secret rite, as nonsensical and insane, we advise you
paternally to refrain from violence against the Jews. Acting against this
prohibition will incur from us a rebuke and punishment from the
Imperial Turkish government. . .Blessed are the peaceful, for they
shall be called the children of God." Spiritual and worldly authority hand
in hand for the protection of the Jewish murder-plague! The seed of a
Montefiore and Crémieux-Schmeerkopp had borne fruit a
hundred-fold. What to call this Archbishop? Perhaps he originated out of
those Jewish schools of the East!

But not only the East had to
deliver this blood-payment in the time to follow; how secure Jewry had
become in this enlightened century of "humanity, civilization, and
humanitarianism," is shown most impressively by the heavily-documented
cases which the Jewish Angel of Death imposed upon the states of Europe in
mockery of all human culture and any kind of community life. From this
shame the land of poets and thinkers does not remain excluded; what the
Jewish-Galician riff-raff in alliance with its Free masonic auxiliaries
has been allowed to accomplish for itself, exceeds the powers of human
imagination.

Yet we next have to take a closer look at the
circumstances in the most strongly Judaized land of Europe next to Poland
and Romania, Hungary!

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