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The Jewish Declaration of War
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Nazi Germany

The Economic Boycott of 1933

Article from The Barnes Review, Jan./Feb. 2001, pp. 41-45.
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Few people know the facts about the singular
event that helped spark what ultimately became known as World War II
- the international Jewish declaration of war on Germany shortly
after Adolf Hitler came to power and well before any official German
government sanctions or reprisals against Jews were carried out. The
March 24, 1933 issue of The Daily Express of London (shown
above) described how Jewish leaders, in combination with powerful
international Jewish financial interests, had launched a boycott of
Germany for the express purpose of crippling her already precarious
economy in the hope of bringing down the new Hitler regime. It was
only then that Germany struck back in response. Thus, if truth be
told, it was the worldwide Jewish leadership - not the Third Reich -
that effectively fired the first shot in the Second World War.
Prominent New York attorney Samuel Untermyer (above right) was one
of the leading agitators in the war against Germany, describing the
Jewish campaign as nothing less than a "holy
war."

Long before the
Hitler government began restricting the rights of the German Jews, the
leaders of the worldwide Jewish community formally declared war on the
"New Germany" at a time when the U.S. government and even the Jewish
leaders in Germany were urging caution in dealing with the new Hitler
regime.

The war by the international Jewish leadership on Germany not only
sparked definite reprisals by the German government but also set the stage
for a little-known economic and political alliance between the Hitler
government and the leaders of the Zionist movement who hoped that the
tension between the Germans and the Jews would lead to massive emigration
to Palestine. In short, the result was a tactical alliance between the
Nazis and the founders of the modern-day state of Israel - a fact that
many today would prefer be forgotten.

To this day, it is generally (although incorrectly) believed that when
Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor in January of 1933, the
German government began policies to suppress the Jews of Germany,
including rounding up of Jews and putting them in concentration camps and
launching campaigns of terror and violence against the domestic Jewish
population.

While there were sporadic eruptions of violence against Jews in Germany
after Hitler came to power, this was not officially sanctioned or
encouraged. And the truth is that anti-Jewish sentiments in Germany (or
elsewhere in Europe) were actually nothing new. As all Jewish historians
attest with much fervor, anti-Semitic uprisings of various degrees had
been ever-present in European history.

In any case, in early 1933, Hitler was not the undisputed leader of
Germany, nor did he have full command of the armed forces. Hitler was a
major figure in a coalition government, but he was far from being the
government himself. That was the result of a process of consolidation
which evolved later.

Even Germany's Jewish Central Association, known as the Verein,
contested the suggestion (made by some Jewish leaders outside Germany)
that the new government was deliberately provoking anti-Jewish uprisings.

The Verein issued a statement that "the responsible government
authorities [i.e. the Hitler regime] are unaware of the threatening
situation," saying, "we do not believe our German fellow citizens will let
themselves be carried away into committing excesses against the Jews."

Despite this, Jewish leaders in the United States and Britain
determined on their own that it was necessary to launch a war against the
Hitler government.

On March 12, 1933 the American Jewish Congress announced a massive
protest at Madison Square Gardens for March 27. At that time the commander
in chief of the Jewish War Veterans called for an American boycott of
German goods. In the meantime, on March 23, 20,000 Jews protested at New
York's City Hall as rallies were staged outside the North German Lloyd and
Hamburg-American shipping lines and boycotts were mounted against German
goods throughout shops and businesses in New York City.

According to The Daily Express of London of March 24, 1933, the
Jews had already launched their boycott against Germany and her elected
government. The headline read "Judea Declares War on Germany - Jews of All
the World Unite - Boycott of German Goods - Mass Demonstrations." The
article described a forthcoming "holy war" and went on to implore Jews
everywhere to boycott German goods and engage in mass demonstrations
against German economic interests. According to the Express:

The whole of Israel throughout the world is uniting to declare an
economic and financial war on Germany. The appearance of the Swastika as
the symbol of the new Germany has revived the old war symbol of Judas to
new life. Fourteen million Jews scattered over the entire world are
tight to each other as if one man, in order to declare war against the
German persecutors of their fellow believers.

The Jewish wholesaler will quit his house, the banker his stock
exchange, the merchant his business, and the beggar his humble hut, in
order to join the holy war against Hitler's people.

The Express said that Germany was "now confronted with an
international boycott of its trade, its finances, and its industry.... In
London, New York, Paris and Warsaw, Jewish businessmen are united to go on
an economic crusade."

The article said "worldwide preparations are being made to organize
protest demonstrations," and reported that "the old and reunited nation of
Israel gets in formation with new and modern weapons to fight out its age
old battle against its persecutors."

This truly could be described as "the first shot fired in the Second
World War."

In a similar vein, the Jewish newspaper Natscha Retsch wrote:

The war against Germany will be waged by all Jewish communities,
conferences, congresses... by every individual Jew. Thereby the war
against Germany will ideologically enliven and promote our interests,
which require that Germany be wholly destroyed.

The danger for us Jews lies in the whole German people, in Germany as a
whole as well as individually. It must be rendered harmless for all
time.... In this war we Jews have to participate, and this with all the
strength and might we have at our disposal.

However, note well that the Zionist Association of Germany put out a
telegram on the 26th of March rejecting many of the allegations made
against the National Socialists as "propaganda," "mendacious" and
"sensational."

In fact, the Zionist faction had every reason to ensure the permanence
of National Socialist ideology in Germany. Klaus Polkehn, writing in the
Journal of Palestine Studies ("The Secret Contacts: Zionism and
Nazi Germany, 1933-1941"; JPS v. 3/4, spring/summer 1976), claims
that the moderate attitude of the Zionists was due to their vested
interest in seeing the financial victory of National Socialism to force
immigration to Palestine. This little-known factor would ultimately come
to play a pivotal part in the relationship between Nazi Germany and the
Jews.

In the meantime, though, German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath
complained of the "vilification campaign" and said:

As concerns Jews, I can only say that their propagandists abroad
are rendering their co-religionists in Germany no service by giving the
German public, through their distorted and untruthful news about
persecution and torture of Jews, the impression that they actually halt
at nothing, not even at lies and calumny, to fight the present German
government.

The fledgling Hitler government itself was clearly trying to contain
the growing tension - both within Germany and without. In the United
States, even U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull wired Rabbi Stephen Wise
of the American Jewish Congress and urged caution:

Whereas there was for a short time considerable physical
mistreatment of Jews, this phase may be considered virtually
terminated.... A stabilization appears to have been reached in the field
of personal mistreatment.... I feel hopeful that the situation which has
caused such widespread concern throughout this country will soon revert
to normal.

This New York Daily News front page
headline hailed the massive anti-German protest rally held in
Madison Square Garden on March 27, 1933. Despite efforts by the
German government to alleviate tensions and prevent the escalation
of name-calling and threats by the international Jewish leadership,
the rally was held as scheduled. Similar rallies and protest marches
were also being held in other cities during the same time frame. The
intensity of the Jewish campaign against Germany was such that the
Hitler government vowed that if the campaign did not stop, there
would be a one-day boycott in Germany of Jewish-owned stores.
Despite this, the hate campaign continued, forcing Germany to take
defensive measures that created a situation wherein the Jews of
Germany became increasingly marginalized. The truth about the Jewish
war on Germany has been suppressed by most histories of the
period.

Despite all this, the
leaders of the Jewish community refused to relent. On March 27 there were
simultaneous protest rallies at Madison Square Garden, in Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland and 70 other locations. The New York
rally was broadcast worldwide. The bottom line is that "the New Germany"
was declared to be an enemy of Jewish interests and thus needed to be
economically strangled. This was before Hitler decided to boycott
Jewish goods.

It was in direct response to this that the German government announced
a one-day boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany on April 1. German
Propaganda Minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels announced that if, after the
one-day boycott, there were no further attacks on Germany, the boycott
would be stopped. Hitler himself responded to the Jewish boycott and the
threats in a speech on March 28 - four days after the original Jewish
declaration of war - saying:

Now that the domestic enemies of the nation have been eliminated
by the Volk itself, what we have long been waiting for will not
come to pass.
The Communist and Marxist
criminals and their Jewish-intellectual instigators, who, having made
off with their capital stocks across the border in the nick of time, are
now unfolding an unscrupulous, treasonous campaign of agitation against
the German Volk as a whole from there....

Lies and slander of positively hair-raising perversity are being
launched about Germany. Horror stories of dismembered Jewish corpses,
gouged out eyes and hacked off hands are circulating for the purpose of
defaming the German Volk in the world for the second time, just
as they had succeeded in doing once before in 1914.

Thus, the fact - one conveniently left out of nearly all history on the
subject - is that Hitler's March 28, 1933 boycott order was in direct
response to the declaration of war on Germany by the worldwide Jewish
leadership just four days earlier. Today, Hitler's boycott order is
described as a naked act of aggression, yet the full circumstances leading
up to his order are seldom described in even the most ponderous and
detailed histories of "the Holocaust".

Not even Saul Friedlander in his otherwise comprehensive overview of
German policy, Nazi Germany and the Jews, mentions the fact that
the Jewish declaration of war and boycott preceded Hitler's speech of
March 28, 1933. Discerning readers would be wise to ask why Friedlander
felt this item of history so irrelevant.

The simple fact is that it was organized Jewry as a political entity -
and not even the German Jewish community per se - that actually
initiated the first shot in the war with Germany.

Placard text:
"Germans! Defend
yourselves!
Don't shop at Jewish stores!"
Photo not part of original TBR article -
added by The
Scriptorium.

Germany's response was
a defensive - not an offensive - measure. Were that fact widely known
today, it would cast new light on the subsequent events that ultimately
led to the world-wide conflagration that followed.

To understand Hitler's reaction to the Jewish declaration of war, it is
vital to understand the critical state of the German economy at the time.
In 1933, the German economy was in a shambles. Some 3 million Germans were
on public assistance with a total of 6 million unemployed. Hyper-inflation
had destroyed the economic vitality of the German nation. Furthermore, the
anti-German propaganda pouring out of the global press strengthened the
resolve of Germany's enemies, especially the Poles and their hawkish
military high command.

The Jewish leaders were not bluffing. The boycott was an act of war not
solely in metaphor: it was a means, well crafted, to destroy Germany as a
political, social and economic entity. The long term purpose of the Jewish
boycott against Germany was to bankrupt her with respect to the reparation
payments imposed on Germany after World War I and to keep Germany
demilitarized and vulnerable.

The boycott, in fact, was quite crippling to Germany. Jewish scholars
such as Edwin Black have reported that, in response to the boycott, German
exports were cut by 10 percent, and that many were demanding seizing
German assets in foreign countries (Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement
- The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish
Palestine, New York, 1984).

The attacks on Germany did not cease. The worldwide Jewish leadership
became ever the more belligerent and worked itself into a frenzy. An
International Jewish Boycott Conference was held in Amsterdam to
coordinate the ongoing boycott campaign. It was held under the auspices of
the self-styled World Jewish Economic Federation, of which famous New York
City attorney and longtime political power broker, Samuel Untermyer, was
elected president.

Upon returning to the United States in the wake of the conference,
Untermyer delivered a speech over WABC Radio (New York), a transcript of
which was printed in The New York Times on August 7, 1933.

Untermyer's inflammatory oratory called for a "sacred war" against
Germany, making the flat-out allegation that Germany was engaged in a plan
to "exterminate the Jews." He said (in part):

...Germany [has] been converted from a nation of culture into a
veritable hell of cruel and savage beasts.
We
owe it not only to our persecuted brethren but to the entire world to
now strike in self-defense a blow that will free humanity from a
repetition of this incredible outrage....
Now or
never must all the nations of the earth make common cause against the...
slaughter, starvation and annihilation... fiendish torture, cruelty and
persecution that are being inflicted day by day upon these men, women
and children....
When the tale is told... the
world will confront a picture so fearful in its barbarous cruelty that
the hell of war and the alleged Belgian atrocities pale into
insignificance as compared to this devilishly, deliberately,
cold-bloodedly planned and already partially executed campaign for the
extermination of a proud, gentle, loyal, law-abiding people...

The Jews are the aristocrats of the world. From time
immemorial they have been persecuted and have seen their persecutors
come and go. They alone have survived. And so will history repeat
itself, but that furnishes no reason why we should permit this reversion
of a once great nation to the Dark Ages or fail to rescue these 600,000
human souls from the tortures of hell....

...What we are proposing and have already gone far toward doing, is to
prosecute a purely defensive economic boycott that will undermine the
Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying
their export trade on which their very existence depends.

...We propose to and are organizing world opinion to
express itself in the only way Germany can be made to
understand....

Untermyer then proceeded to provide his listeners with a wholly
fraudulent history of the circumstances of the German boycott and how it
originated. He also proclaimed that the Germans were bent on a plan to
"exterminate the Jews":

The Hitler regime originated and are fiendishly prosecuting their
boycott to exterminate the Jews by placarding Jewish shops, warning
Germans against dealing with them, by imprisoning Jewish shopkeepers and
parading them through the streets by the hundreds under guard of Nazi
troops for the sole crime of being Jews, by ejecting them from the
learned professions in which many of them had attained eminence, by
excluding their children from the schools, their men from the labor
unions, closing against them every avenue of livelihood, locking them in
vile concentration camps and starving and torturing them without cause
and resorting to every other conceivable form of torture, inhuman beyond
conception, until suicide has become their only means of escape, and all
solely because they are or their remote ancestors were Jews, and all
with the avowed object of exterminating them.

Untermyer concluded his largely fantastic and hysterical address by
declaring that with the support of "Christian friends... we will drive the
last nail in the coffin of bigotry and fanaticism...."

The Biggest Secret of
WWII?
Why Germany Began Rounding Up Jews
and
Deporting Them to the East
Why did the Germans begin
rounding up the Jews and interning them in the concentration camps
to begin with? Contrary to popular myth, the Jews remained "free"
inside Germany - albeit subject to laws which did restrict certain
of their privileges - prior to the outbreak of World War
II.
Yet, the other little-known fact is that
just before the war began, the leadership of the
world Jewish community formally declared war on Germany - above and
beyond the ongoing six-year-long economic boycott launched by the
worldwide Jewish community when the Nazi Party came to power in
1933.
As a consequence of the
formal declaration of war, the German authorities thus deemed Jews
to be potential enemy agents.
Here's the
story behind the story: Chaim Weizmann (above), president of both
the international "Jewish Agency" and of the World Zionist
Organization (and later Israel's first president), told British
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in a letter published in The
London Times on September 6, 1939
that:
I wish to confirm, in the most
explicit manner, the declarations which I and my colleagues have
made during the last month, and especially in the last week, that
the Jews stand by Great Britain and will fight on the side of the
democracies. Our urgent desire is to give effect to these
declarations [against Germany].
We wish to
do so in a way entirely consonant with the general scheme of British
action, and therefore would place ourselves, in matters big and
small, under the coordinating direction of His Majesty's Government.
The Jewish Agency is ready to enter into immediate arrangements for
utilizing Jewish manpower, technical ability, resources,
etc.
[Emphasis in red added by The
Scriptorium.]

That his allegations
against Germany were made long before even Jewish historians today claim
there were any gas chambers or even a plan to "exterminate" the Jews,
displays the nature of the propaganda campaign confronting Germany.

However, during this same period there were some unusual developments
at work: The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of
private cooperation between the German government and the Zionist movement
in Germany and Palestine (and actually worldwide) to increase the flow of
German-Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine.

The modern-day supporters of Zionist Israel and many historians have
succeeded in keeping this Nazi-Zionist pact a secret to the general public
for decades and while most Americans have no concept of the possibility
that there could have been outright collaboration between the Nazi
leadership and the founders of what became the state of Israel, the truth
has begun to emerge.

Dissident Jewish writer Lenni Brennar's Zionism In the Age of the
Dictators, published by a small press and not given the publicity it
deserves by the so-called "mainstream" media (which is otherwise obsessed
with the Holocaust era), was perhaps the first major endeavor in this
realm.

In response to Brennar and others, the Zionist reaction has usually
consisted of declarations that their collaboration with Nazi Germany was
undertaken solely to save the lives of Jews. But the collaboration was all
the more remarkable because it took place at a time when many Jews and
Jewish organizations demanded a boycott of Germany.

To the Zionist leaders, Hitler's assumption of power held out the
possibility of a flow of immigrants to Palestine. Previously, the majority
of German Jews, who identified themselves as Germans, had little sympathy
with the Zionist cause of promoting the ingathering of world Jewry to
Palestine. But the Zionists saw that only the anti-Semitic Hitler was
likely to push the anti-Zionist German Jews into the arms of Zionism.

For all the modern-day wailing by worldwide supporters of Israel (not
to mention the Israelis themselves) about "the Holocaust", they neglect to
mention that making the situation in Germany as uncomfortable for the Jews
as possible - in cooperation with German National Socialism - was part of
the plan.

Note to readers of this article who can also read German:
a booklet discussing the emigration of Jews from Third Reich
Germany, and the Transfer Agreement that facilitated their
emigration, may be found here!

This was the genesis of
the so-called Transfer Agreement, the agreement between Zionist Jews and
the National Socialist government to transfer German Jewry to Palestine.

According to Jewish historian Walter Laqueur and many others, German
Jews were far from convinced that immigration to Palestine was the answer.
Furthermore, although the majority of German Jews refused to consider the
Zionists as their political leaders, it is clear that Hitler protected and
cooperated with the Zionists for the purposes of implementing the final
solution: the mass transfer of Jews to the Middle East.

Edwin Black, in his massive tome The Transfer Agreement
(Macmillan, 1984), stated that although most Jews did not want to flee to
Palestine at all, due to the Zionist movement's influence within Nazi
Germany a Jew's best chance of getting out of Germany was by emigrating to
Palestine. In other words, the Transfer Agreement itself mandated that
Jewish capital could only to go Palestine.

Thus, according to the Zionists, a Jew could leave Germany only if he
went to the Levant.

The primary difficulty with the Transfer Agreement (or even the idea of
such an agreement) was that the English [!!!;
Scriptorium] were demanding, as a condition of immigration, that
each immigrant pay 1,000 pounds sterling upon arrival in Haifa or
elsewhere. The difficulty was that such hard currency was nearly
impossible to come by in a cash-strapped and radically inflationary
Germany. This was the main idea behind the final Transfer Agreement.
Laqueur writes:

A large German bank would freeze funds paid in by immigrants in
blocked accounts for German exporters, while a bank in Palestine would
control the sale of German goods to Palestine, thereby providing the
immigrants with the necessary foreign currency on the spot. Sam Cohen,
co-owner of Hanoaiah Ltd. and initiator of the transfer endeavors, was
however subjected to long-lasting objections from his own people and
finally had to concede that such a transfer agreement could only be
concluded on a much higher level with a bank of its own rather than that
of a private company. The renowned Anglo-Palestine Bank in London would
be included in this transfer deal and create a trust company for [this]
purpose.

Of course, this is of major historical importance in dealing with the
relationship between Zionism and National Socialism in Germany in the
1930s. The relationship was not one merely of mutual interest and
political favoritism on the part of Hitler, but a close financial
relationship with German banking families and financial institutions as
well. Black writes:

It was one thing for the Zionists to subvert the anti-Nazi
boycott. Zionism needed to transfer out the capital of German Jews, and
merchandise was the only available medium. But soon Zionist leaders
understood that the success of the future Jewish Palestinian economy
would be inextricably bound up with the survival of the Nazi economy. So
the Zionist leadership was compelled to go further. The German economy
would have to be safeguarded, stabilized, and if necessary reinforced.
Hence, the Nazi party and the Zionist organizers shared a common stake
in the recovery of Germany.

Thus one sees a radical fissure in world Jewry around 1933 and beyond.
There were, first, the non-Zionist Jews (specifically the World Jewish
Congress founded in 1933), who, on the one hand, demanded the boycott and
eventual destruction of Germany. Black notes that many of these people
were not just in New York and Amsterdam, but a major source for this also
came from Palestine proper.

On the other hand, one can see the judicious use of such feelings by
the Zionists for the sake of eventual resettlement in Palestine. In other
words, it can be said (and Black does hint at this) that Zionism believed
that, since Jews would be moving to the Levant, capital flight would be
necessary for any new economy to function.

The result was the understanding that Zionism would have to ally itself
with National Socialism, so that the German government would not impede
the flow of Jewish capital out of the country.

It served the Zionist interests at the time that Jews be loud in their
denunciations of German practices against the Jews to scare them into the
Levant, but, on the other hand, Laqueur states that "The Zionists became
motivated not to jeopardize the German economy or currency." In other
words, the Zionist leadership of the Jewish Diaspora was one of subterfuge
and underhandedness, with only the advent of German hostility towards
Jewry convincing the world's Jews that immigration was the only escape.

The fact is that the ultimate establishment of the state of Israel was
based on fraud. The Zionists did not represent anything more than a small
minority of German Jews in 1933.

On the one hand, the Zionist fathers of Israel wanted loud
denunciations of Germany's "cruelties" to the world's Jews while at the
same time demanding moderation so that the National Socialist government
would remain stable, financially and politically. Thus Zionism boycotted
the boycott.

For all intents and purposes, the National Socialist government was the
best thing to happen to Zionism in its history, for it "proved" to many
Jews that Europeans were irredeemably anti-Jewish and that Palestine was
the only answer: Zionism came to represent the overwhelming majority of
Jews solely by trickery and cooperation with Adolf Hitler.

For the Zionists, both the denunciations of German policies towards
Jews (to keep Jews frightened), plus the reinvigoration of the German
economy (for the sake of final resettlement) was imperative for the
Zionist movement. Ironically, today the Zionist leaders of Israel complain
bitterly about the horrific and inhuman regime of the National Socialists.
So the fraud continues.

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